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Yokohama Visitor Travel Guide
Yokohama is the capital of Kanagawa Prefecture, located in the Kant? region of the main island of Honsh? and is a major commercial hub of the Greater Tokyo Area. Yokohama’s population of 3.6 million makes it Japan’s largest incorporated city and second most populous urban area after Tokyo. Located on the western coast of Tokyo Bay [...]
Continue reading...Tokyo Tourist and Travel Guide
7. November 2008
Tokyo is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan and located on the eastern side of the main island Honshu. The twenty-three special wards of Tokyo, each governed as a city, cover the area that was once the city of Tokyo in the eastern part of the prefecture, and total over 8 million people. The [...]
Continue reading...Takayama Travel Guide Information
7. November 2008
Takayama is a city located in Gifu, Japan. Hida-Takayama, locally just plain Takayama is a city near the northern Japan Alps of Gifu prefecture, in the Chubu region of Japan. Takayama is famous for its well-preserved quarter with Edo-style streets, only rivalled by those of Kanazawa. The city is fairly old, dating back to the J?mon [...]
Continue reading...Osaka Tourist Information Guide
7. November 2008
Osaka is a city in Japan, located at the mouth of the Yodo River on Osaka Bay, in the Kansai region of the main island of Honshu. Osaka is the second largest city in Japan, the central metropolis of the Kansai region and the largest of the Osaka-Kobe-Kyoto trio. The city is the capital of Osaka [...]
Continue reading...Okinawa Travel Guide Information
7. November 2008
Okinawa is one of Japan’s southern prefectures, and consists of hundreds of the Ryukyu Islands in a chain over 1,000 km long, which extends southwest from Kyushu (the southwesternmost of Japan’s main four islands) to Taiwan. Okinawa’s capital, Naha, is located in the southern part of the largest and most populous island, Okinawa Island, which [...]
Continue reading...Nikko Tourist Information
7. November 2008
Nikko is a city located in the mountains of Tochigi Prefecture, Japan. Located approximately 140 km north of Tokyo and approximately 35 km west of Utsunomiya, the capital of Tochigi, it is a popular destination for Japanese and international tourists, housing the mausoleum of shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu and that of his grandson Iemitsu (Iemitsu-byo Taiyu-in), [...]
Continue reading...Narita Travel Guide Information
7. November 2008
Narita is a city located in Chiba, Japan. It is the site of Narita International Airport, the main international airport serving the Greater Tokyo Area. As of 2003, the city has an estimated population of 98,296 and population density of 748.81 persons per km². Its total area is 131.27 km². The vast majority of Narita’s visitors [...]
Continue reading...Nagano Tourist Information
7. November 2008
Nagano is the capital city of Nagano Prefecture, is located in the northern part of the prefecture near the confluence of the Chikuma and the Sai rivers, on the main Japanese island of Honshu. As of July 1, 2006, the city had an estimated population of 378,059. The total land area is 737.86 km². Nagano hosted [...]
Continue reading...Kyoto Tourist Information Guide
7. November 2008
Kyoto is a city in the central part of the island of Honshu, Japan. It has a population close to 1.5 million. Formerly the imperial capital of Japan, it is now the capital of Kyoto Prefecture, as well as a major part of the Osaka-Kobe-Kyoto metropolitan area. Nestled among mountains in Western Honshu, Kyoto has a [...]
Continue reading...Hiroshima Tourist Guide
6. November 2008
The Japanese city of Hiroshima is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture, and the largest city in the Ch?goku region of western Honshu, the largest of Japan’s islands. It is known throughout the world as the first city in history subjected to nuclear warfare when it was bombed by the United States of America during World [...]
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7. November 2008
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