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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