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Travel to Tokyo
Tokyo is arguably the largest city in the world. It consists of 23 domestic cities (ku), 26 suburban (shi), five towns (CHO), eight villages (mura), more than 300 islands, two major island chains, and several other fragments, each with their own special attractions.
Since it makes little sense to tell about all these different cities as if they were one city, we have subdivided as follows Tokyo.
Tokyo has been the capital of Japan since 1868 when it replaced the ancient capital of Kyoto (just north of Osaka, the second largest city in Japan). Formerly called Edo Tokyo before becoming the capital. Read the rest of this entry »
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Kenroku-en Garden in Kanazawa, Japan
Kenroku-en of Japan is one of the most accurate of the country gardens and the world Japan.
Japan: The garden Kenroku-en in Kanazawa. Japan is famous for the beauty of its gardens and one of them is the Kenroku-en in Kanazawa, one of the world’s most beautiful gardens. For the Japanese is one of the three most beautiful gardens of their country on the Kairaku-on-Mito and Korakuen in Okayama.
Kenroku-word in Japanese, means “a combination of six” in reference to a famous garden of the Sung dynasty which established six attributes to attain perfection: isolation, space, artifice, antiquity, abundant water and views. Read the rest of this entry »
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Travel to Japan: Things To Consider Before Leaving -part 2-
Another issue that often worry about is security, but Japan is a country that is safe, especially for tourists, because the laws tend to be harder Nipponese with the offender when the victim is a tourist, which helps ensure their safety .
Although the reality is that Japan has one of the most important organized mafias in the world, the Yakuza, but surprisingly are very well tolerated by the people – are “syndicated” and have offices and any other company – and if you ask a Japanese may not have a bad opinion of the Yakuza. Read the rest of this entry »
Travel to Japan: Things To Consider Before Leaving -part 1-
Perhaps one of the most surprising in a country as ‘modern’ and always up to date as what Japan is not widespread is the use of credit cards and the difficulties of finding an ATM.
But let’s talk about money, start at the beginning: the Japanese currency is the yen – that is pronounced in Japanese.
There are banknotes of 1000, 2000, 5000 and 10,000 yen, and coins of 1, 5, 10, 50, 100 and 500 yen, all with their value in western numbers except 5 yen coin, we can know its default value or kanji for the number 5 – ? pronounced go. Read the rest of this entry »