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The annual sakura season is one of the most famous recurring natural spectacles in the world. For two to three weeks each spring, Japan's cities, rivers, roads, and temple grounds disappear beneath a canopy of pale pink and white flowers. The questio...
Japan consists of 14,125 islands, of which approximately 260–400 are inhabited. This number only recently changed due to advancements in surveying technology where the number increased from a 1987 Coast Guard report with a figure of 6,852 islands. ...
Japan is the most comprehensively designed country in the world for blind and visually impaired navigation. And, what makes this remarkable is that the infrastructure is not a recent accessibility retrofit but rather it is a systematically developed ...
The famous Japan loop – Tokyo, Hakone, Kyoto, Nara, Osaka – is famous for a reason. It's extraordinary. But Japan is the kind of country where every corner you don't reach on the first trip becomes the reason for the second one. Here are the places t...
Denver's Cherry Blossom Festival — formally the Sakura Matsuri — is one of the largest Japanese cultural celebrations in the American interior. Hosted annually by the Japan-America Society of Colorado, the event brings together Japanese-American heri...
Did you know Japan has roughly 4 million vending machines — about one for every 30 people?…
JapanDid you know roughly 10,000 vermilion torii gates wind up the mountain at Kyoto's Fushimi …
Fushimi Inari, KyotoDid you know as many as 3,000 people can cross Tokyo's Shibuya Crossing in a single light …
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