Mount Shiraga

Mount Shiraga

What? To cite Hiking in Japan , (emphasis added) “Mt. Shiraga is a bald, rocky peak sandwiched between...

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Kumano Kodo Part 1 - From Takijiri-Oji to Tsugizakura-Oji

Kumano Kodo Part 1 - From Takijiri-Oji to Tsugizakura-Oji

What? Kumano Kodo (熊野古道) is a network of pilgrimage routes and is recognized as Unesco World Heritage...

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Mount Rokko

Mount Rokko

What? Mount Rokko (六甲山) is the most easily accessible mountain (931 meters) in the Kansai area and is...

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Kamikochi - The roof of Japan

Kamikochi - The roof of Japan

What? Kamikochi (上高地) is a valley in the Chubu Sangaku National Park (中部山岳国立公園) on the grounds of mou...

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Yakushima - Kusugawa Course

Yakushima - Kusugawa Course

What? Yakushima (屋久島) is a subtropical island full of cedar forests of which a big part is declared a...

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Soaking in the Sand Baths of Ibusuki

Soaking in the Sand Baths of Ibusuki

What? Ibusuki (指宿) is the southernmost town on the Satsuma Peninsula. It is an onsen town, but it got...

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Kagoshima

Kagoshima

What? Historically better known as Satsuma (薩摩), the region of Kagoshima (鹿児島) played an important ro...

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Osaka - Glory of the past: Shinsekai and Expo Park

Osaka - Glory of the past: Shinsekai and Expo Park

What? Osaka 大阪 is Japan’s third largest city after capital Tokyo and its neighbouring Yokohama. Sinc...

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Mount Yake

Mount Yake

What? Yakedake or Mount Yake (焼岳) is a 2455 meters high volcano in the Hida Mountain Range (飛騨山脈). I...

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Ushiku Daibutsu

Ushiku Daibutsu

What? Ushiku Daibutsu (牛久大仏) is a huge statue towering 120 meter high (including foundation) of Amid...

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Northern Ibaraki - Hananuki Valley & Rokkakudo

Northern Ibaraki - Hananuki Valley & Rokkakudo

What? Hananuki Gorge (花貫渓谷) is pleasantly located in a valley filled with small waterfalls and is fam...

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Gardens in Mito

Gardens in Mito

What? Hitachi Seaside Park (ひたち海浜公園) is a huge park of 350ha. Apart from a small amusement park it is...

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Fukuroda Falls (& Koriyama)

Fukuroda Falls (& Koriyama)

What? The Fukuroda Falls (袋田の滝) are considered as one of the 3 most beautiful waterfalls in Japan, t...

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Rurikei Valley

Rurikei Valley

What? Rurikei (るり渓) is both a prefectural natural park as an onsen resort in Kyoto Prefecture . The ...

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Beauty on the ground - manhole covers

Beauty on the ground - manhole covers

I like travelling in Japan. Japan is a county of extremes, and whatever you like – tradition or technology, urban sprawl or wild nature...

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Hoshida Enchi - The Star Swing

Hoshida Enchi - The Star Swing

What? Hoshida Enchi (星田園地) is one of the many smaller parks in the quasi national park of Osaka Fumin...

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Inunakisan

Inunakisan

What? Inunakisan or Mount Inunaki (犬鳴山) is a mountain dotted with waterfalls . Monks and trainees of S...

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Housing in Japan

Housing in Japan

I remember my first living arrangement in Japan very well. It was the very small and honestly speaking quite old and smelly Internationa...

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Cherry blossoms in Itami

Cherry blossoms in Itami

What? Itami (伊丹), famous for its airport , lies on the border of Osaka and Hyogo prefectures. Being ...

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Konze Alps

Konze Alps

What? The term “alps” isn’t really apt, but the Konze Alps (金勝アルプス) is a mountainous area southwest ...

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Around Gifu Park

Around Gifu Park

What? Gifu (岐阜市) is the capital of the prefecture that bears the same name (岐阜県). While it has proba...

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Reversible Destiny at Yoro & Ogaki

Reversible Destiny at Yoro & Ogaki

What? Yoro Park offers various attractions like a strange art-theme park , a kid’s theme park, a golf...

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Miyama - Kayabuki-no-Sato -

Miyama - Kayabuki-no-Sato -

What? Miyama is famed for Kayabuki-no-Sato (かやぶきの里), a small village where several farmhouses with th...

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