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Osaka Map

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Buddhism is a leading religion, one that foregoes the worship of a god. Shintoism, the other prominent religion, includes ancestor worship. The typical Japanese is extremely polite in formal situations, highly sensitive in interpersonal relations and much concerned about how others perceive him. Success or failure is seen reflecting on the family to a larger extent than in most societies. Japanese food is probably the most refined in the world, if by refined is meant small portions, delicately prepared and displayed. One writer characterizes Japanese food as modular, a gastronomic experience. It requires highly trained food preparers, razor-sharp knives to

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Japan Metro Map

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Japan has taken up skiing with a vengeance. The majority of the best ski resorts are in the Japan Alps. Avoid weekends when the mob makes the mountain look like solid skiers. Travel time by train from Tokyo to the Japan Alps region is between two and eight hours. The Ishiuchi ski resort claims to be the largest. Mt. Koya is one of several religious mountains with temples, monasteries, schools, and graves. Overnight guests are welcome but must be prepared for a vegetarian diet. Stay in a Japanese-style hotel. Sleep on a futon, a mattress with a quilt laid on

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Japan Map Tourist Attractions

editor — Thu, 15 Sep 2016 12:21:44 +0000

The traveler should attend a Sumo wrestling match. The contenders, behemoths in breechcloths, charge each other like rutting bulls. The appeal to the Japanese perhaps is the sharp contrast in size and behavior of the contenders to the average Japanese male, who is usually slightly built, constrained in behavior and carefully schooled in courtesy. Judo, kendo (bamboo sword fighting), karate and aikido can be observed, or even learned. What better symbols of touristic Japan than Mt. Fuji and the Shinkansen, the bullet train, speeding below the mountain. The Japanese railway system is generally considered the most advanced in the world.

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Tokyo Subway Map

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Eating in Tokyo can be very expensive. The expense-account restaurants in the first-class hotels are nearly all for those persons who are not budget conscious or who are dining at company expense. The business executives in Japan have unlimited expense accounts and the hotel restaurants and fancier restaurants cater to them. There are numerous other choices. Tokyo has close to ninety thousand, mostly small, restaurants. On weekdays the restaurants in office buildings are open to the public and are reasonably priced. So too are the multitude of restaurants on the side streets, along the Ginza and in the subway arcades.

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Osaka Map Tourist Attractions

editor — Thu, 15 Sep 2016 12:20:45 +0000

Osaka is known for its numerous restaurants, some thirty-five thousand in this city of 2.8 million people. Vending machines abound in Osaka streets, dispensing such foods as noodles, rice crackers, soda, and dried seaweed. Visitors are amazed at how well the Japanese do with their limited space. Thanks to surrounding waters most of the needed protein comes from fish and seafood. For those who want to mingle with the resident Japanese and save money at the same time, the family inns, minshuku, are highly recommended. They are the Japanese version of bed and breakfasts. Rates are moderate. The inns are

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Japan Subway Map

editor — Thu, 15 Sep 2016 12:20:07 +0000

Since about 1970 the Japanese have become major world travelers. Cameras at the ready, they are likely to appear in groups, taking advantage of package tours. The island of Guam is known as a honeymoon island for the Japanese. Several of the major hotels in Hawaii are Japanese owned and the Japanese comprise a large percentage of Hawaiian visitors. Australia and New Zealand are also favorite pleasure-travel destinations. In Tokyo the big tourist sights are the Imperial Palace and the Meijii Shrine. The modern pulse of Tokyo is felt in the Ginza, Tokyo’s major shopping center and number one nightspot.

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Japan Map

editor — Thu, 15 Sep 2016 12:19:44 +0000

Tokyo and Osaka are the major gateways for air and ship travel to and from Japan. Tokyo is by far the largest and the major gateway to Asia from the United States. The American visitor is likely to leave from San Francisco or Los Angeles and travel a great circle route via Alaska, a distance of about fifty-two hundred miles. Honolulu to Tokyo is thirty-nine-hundred miles, and a stopover in Honolulu is a pleasant way of breaking the journey from the continental United States. Because the international dateline is crossed during the trip, the time difference between the U.S. West

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