Mount Fuji offers breathtaking sights on cloudy afternoons: look at this mountainous landscape!
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Tag Archives: 静岡県 (Shizuoka-ken)
Hidden landscape in Japan: Coastal cliff at Dogashima (Nishi-izu, Shizuoka)
My favourite hidden landscape in Japan is a coastal cliff at Dogashima (near Nishi-izu town, Shizuoka prefecture) due to a deep blue sea, visible layers in the rock, colourful deposits, improbable vegetation, and a mysterious cave… Ride a boat to see that landscape!
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Japan’s 47 administrative areas: list and map in English
Japan is administratively divided in 47 complementary areas listed in English below by big region from North-East to South-West:
- Hokkaido
- Aomori
- Iwate
- Akita
- Miyagi
- Yamagata
- Fukushima
- Ibaraki
- Tochigi
- Gunma
- Chiba
- Saitama
- Tokyo
- Kanagawa
- Niigata
- Toyama
- Ishikawa
- Nagano
- Gifu
- Fukui
- Yamanashi
- Shizuoka
- Aichi
- Shiga
- Kyoto
- Hyogo
- Mie
- Nara
- Osaka
- Wakayama
- Tottori
- Shimane
- Okayama
- Hiroshima
- Yamaguchi
- Kagawa
- Tokushima
- Ehime
- Kochi
- Fukuoka
- Saga
- Nagasaki
- Oita
- Miyazaki
- Kumamoto
- Kagoshima
- Okinawa
Any specialist of Japan should know this basic list and should be able to place the 47 names on an administrative map of Japan. Do not wait if you plan to be an English-speaking tour conductor, tour guide or travel agent in Japan like Sébastien Duval 
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