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A historical artist's residence by Tokyo's Ueno Park
Tokyo's Ueno Park is home to a number of the city's best art museums, among them Tokyo National Museum, the National Museum of Western Art, and Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, which rightly draw crowds with quality exhibitions.
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Immerse yourself in the Blue Zone
Okinawa is home to some of the world’s oldest and healthiest people, with 34 centenarians per 100,000 people. Citizens of this blue zone have lower rates of cancer and cardio-vascular disease than most other parts of the world. It is time to take t...

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Celebrating the performing arts and Japan Heritages
The Nippon Takaramono Project commenced in early July, launching the first in a series of 2017 events aiming to promote some of Japan's best hidden treasures to both locals and foreign tourists alike.
It's a new initiative being led...

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Pro baseball in downtown Osaka
Set in the center of Osaka, the Kyocera Dome is the home to the Orix Buffaloes baseball team. With an interesting building and decent prices, catching a Buffaloes game is recommended for baseball fans in the Osaka area. THE BUILDING
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Culture, history, and food, food, food. Come hungry!
Nankinmachi, the name of the Chinatown district in Kobe, is famous not only for its cultural and historical significance, but also its status as a great tourist destination.
 SEEING AND DOING
The primary draw to Chinatown is food, ...

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Where our childhood memories reside
I wasn’t even aware of the existence of a lovingly put-together Snoopy Museum in Roppongi until a friend mentioned it to me. As a big Snoopy fan, paying a visit to this museum was a dream come true.
 
Located just around the corner of Roppongi 5-Ch...

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A Meiji period museum & World Heritage cultural site
The winds of modernization came to Japan during the Meiji period (1868 to 1912) with the onset of the industrial revolution. Its appetite for fuel culminated with the establishment of Manda Coal Mine in Arao City.
Another wave of c...

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Top four filming locations to look out for
Japanese cinema has a legendary reputation across the world. In the early nineteenth century, such directors as Masahiro Makino, Akira Kurosawa, and Yasujiro Ozu created work that helped to define and still influences modern cinema on an int...

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Musical Magic in Hokkaido
Characterised by its creaking wooden floorboards, shining ornaments, and ever-present twinkling of intricately designed music boxes, Otaru Music Box Museum feels almost a homey escape to the nineteenth century Swiss Alps. Anyone who visits will appreciate th...

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Museum of life in the Showa era Tokyo may seem like all steel and skyscrapers, but a visit to the Museum of Life in the Showa Era will make you feel as if you’ve slipped back in time about 60 years.
The Showa Period in Japan lasted from 1926 to 1989, and this small but carefully cura...

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