HOKKAIDO

Hokkaido is a certain big island in the Japanese northern part.
The figure in the bottom expresses a position of Hokkaido in Japan.


In Hokkaido, you can watch a lot of beautiful scenery.
Shiretoko Peninsula of Hokkaido was recognized as a world heritage.
The figure in the bottom is scenery of Shiretoko Peninsula.






There are many farming families cultivating the flower in Hokkaido.
When you go to Hokkaido for a trip in spring and summer, you can watch a beautiful flower garden.






In Hokkaido where a lot of snow falls, you can enjoy winter sports such as a ski or the snowboarding in winter.


Hokkaido is popular with Japanese tourists very much.
There are a lot of interesting area and culture around Hokkaido.
I want to introduce it still more.
Let's go to Hokkaido for a trip!

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Akihabara

Akihabara in Tokyo is a very strange town.
People loving Japanese animated cartoon / comics / game are going to gather in Akihabara.
The people call them "otaku".

When you walk Akihabara, you meet the people who disguised itself as the character of an animated cartoon and the game.
They enjoy it in various costume.




In Akihabara, the coffee shop where a waitress is dressed in clothes of the maid is popular.

They call you "domine" and bring drink and food.
A visitor is a man mainly, but the woman visitor comes, too.
In these shops, it came to be opened a store a lot in the area except Akihabara.


There are a lot of shops selling an electric appliance in Akihabara.
In Akihabara, you can find even the rare electric appliance which is not sold in the other areas.


Akihabara is a very interesting place.
Let's go to Akihabara for a trip!

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NARA

Nara is a city with the history very much as well as Kyoto.
It takes about 3 hours by a train from Tokyo.
It takes about 30 minutes by a train from Osaka.
The figure in the bottom expresses a position of Nara in Japan.


Nara was a capital before Kyoto became the capital in 794.
Buddhism came in the times when Nara was a capital and affected politics and culture.

Nara still has a lot of temple and Buddhist images.
A Buddhist image called a great statue of Buddha of Nara is the most famous.
The great statue of Buddha was produced in 745 in the Christian era by an order of the then Emperor.
In the year when a great statue of Buddha was produced, an epidemic and an earthquake and a dispute occurred.
It is said that the great statue of Buddha was produced by a wish for stability and peace.

The great statue of Buddha has about 15 meters height.
It is very big.


In Nara, a deer is protected as a holy animal.
The wild deer which is in Nara-koen Park is not afraid of people.


The tourist buys a cookie for deer and can feed a deer it by delivery by hand.


The deer of the child is very pretty.


There is the shop where is popular among Japanese tourists in Nara recently.
The shop is "Nakatani Do".
When it says why it is a popular shop, the reason is because they make a rice cake with high speed.
One knocks on the rice cake with a mallet of about 15kg weight.
One sometimes moves a rice cake barehanded so that a place to knock on becomes uniform.
They perform them at high speed.
One will injure a hand when they make a mistake.
You can watch their movie.


There are a lot of interesting area and culture around Nara.
I want to introduce it still more.
Let's go to Nara for a trip!

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KYOTO

Kyoto is a city with the history very much.
It takes about 2 hours by a train from Tokyo.
It takes about 40 minutes by a train from Osaka.
The figure in the bottom expresses a position of Kyoto in Japan.


Kyoto was a Japanese capital for about 1000 years from 794 years in the Christian era.
Kyoto developed for a long time as Japanese economy, the center of the culture.
You will feel the history everywhere of the town.
And it will be pleasant that you stroll in the town of Kyoto.


Kyoto of the night is beautiful, too and is attractive.


There are a lot of Buddhist temple and Shinto shrine Buddhist temples in Kyoto.
The figure in the bottom is famous "Yasaka-jinja Shrine".


The figure in the bottom is famous "Kiyomizu-dera Temple".


When you walk Kyoto, you will see the strange women who made up.
They wear "the kimono" which is Japanese traditional clothes.
They are called "a geisha" and "a maiko".
The appearance is similar, but is different in clothes and makeup.
Each has a rule.
The left woman is "a geisha", and a right woman is "a maiko".


They show a song and a dance at the party of the Japanese style.
A right woman is "a geisha", and the left woman is "a maiko" this time.


Did you understand the difference of "a geisha" and "the maiko?"
"The maiko" is ascetic practices period to become "a geisha".
The age of "the maiko" is young, and it is generally the teens.
"The maiko" wears showy clothes in comparison with "the geisha".
"The maiko" trains herself for about around 5 years and becomes "a geisha".
When you came to Kyoto for a trip, watch the difference of "a geisha" and "the maiko".

There are a lot of interesting area and culture around Kyoto.
I want to introduce it still more.
Let's go to Kyoto for a trip!

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OSAKA

Osaka is one of the Japanese main cities as well as Tokyo.
It takes about 2 hours and a half by a train from Tokyo.
When it is an airplane, it takes about 1 hour.
The figure in the bottom expresses a position of Osaka in Japan.




Osaka developed as a commercial town from old days.
It is the city where a lot of buildings are built in the present age.



Osaka was known as the town where many cooking ingredients gathered.
Therefore Osaka was called "a kitchen of the world".
Of course there is still a lot of delicious food in Osaka.
Representative food of Osaka is "Takoyaki"."Takoyaki" dissolves wheat flour with water and cooks it on a special iron plate.
"Takoyaki" is usually eaten as a snack.
A photograph in the bottom is men cooking "Takoyaki".



A photograph in the bottom is "Takoyaki".





There is a big castle in Osaka.Osaka-jo Castle was built in 1583.



It is "Hideyoshi Toyotomi" of the samurai who ordered by construction.



Cherry blossoms bloom in April and are very beautiful.



There are a lot of interesting area and culture around Osaka.I introduce it after the next time.
Let's go to Osaka for a trip!

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TOKYO

Tokyo is a Japanese capital.
The lower figure expresses a position of Tokyo in Japan.




There is the Imperial Palace where the Japanese imperial family lives in in Tokyo.The Japanese imperial family appears in the Guinness Book of Records with the world oldest Royal Family.The lower photograph is Imperial Palace.





Tokyo is the big city where more than 8,000,000 live in.A lot of modern buildings are built.
The night view to look at from Tokyo Tower built in imitation of the French Eiffel Tower is very beautiful.






There is the tour to look down at Tokyo Tower by a helicopter.




There are a lot of delicious restaurants in Tokyo.With the Michelin guide, a shop of 3 star is eight shops which Paris has much next.It is the number of most stores in the world about 1 star.Japanese restaurant "Kanda" got 3 star, and the lower photograph is "Kanda".


The shop appearing in Michelin guide is expensive.However, there are a lot of cheap, delicious restaurants in Tokyo.

There are a lot of interesting area and culture around Tokyo.After the next time, I introduce it.

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