Okinawa

Okinawa is southernmost prefecture in Japan. lying south, Its climate is subtropical one, quit different from the other prefectures. It is hot all the year, and typhoon often comes accross Okinawa absolutely unlike Hokkaido. Nature and Sea are so beutiful that you can be really impressed with its facinations.


Okinawa was Ryukyu kingdam untill 1609. Since then, they created their own culture; dance and music, language, food and alcohol. The best season to visit Okinawa is of course summer! But it is too expensive and there are lots of people and people...... You know in winter, it is about half cost to visit and visiters are few! Its tempreture is about 20℃, though you should not swim in the sea you can enjoy the sea with boat or submarine.

Place I'd like to visit is whatever islands exept main one. Main island is much more clear and beautiful than Honsyu, but among Ryukyu islands, it is dirty. Miyako-jima, Taketomi-jima, Ishigaki-jima are so beautiful, nature still remaind as it is. And I really want to go to Tyuraumi　aquarium!


I miss warm and summer.

Miyajima

Miyajima is choosen one of the best 3 Japanese site-seeing.

And Miyajima is also choosen a world heritage site.

It is in Hiroshima,in the Inside sea of Japan(setonaikai).

Miyajima itself has been beauty-spot and worshiped as a god, and since Heian-period Itsukushima shrine has been famous because of Hei-ke. Itsukushima shrine is so beautiful and unique because it is on the sea!!!!

Sometimes it is on the land, with the tide gone out.

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There are lots of wild deer. Actually, they are not wild.
There used to be wild deer, but all of them were killed by American after world war 2.
So deer now living in Miyajima were taken from Nara.
They are cute, but you have to be careful. Sometimes they attack people

If you go to Hiroshima, you can go to Miyajima easily by ferry!

Minato Mirai 21

Some people say “In which prefecture is Yokohama?” , when asked. Yokohama is in Kanagawa. I think Yokohama is more famous than its prefecture, KanagawaJ

I’ve been there, no, just gone through this summer. Yokohama is where I really want to go among big cities. I prefer Yokohama than Tokyo!

Minato mirai 21 is so much modern place,

which has many building, shopping mall, amusement park or place, tower and whatever!

it is also a kind of date spot, night view of minato mirai 21 is so romantic.

And I also want to go to Chinese town, biggest in Japan, Yokohama baseball stadium.

Sadogashima

Sadogashima is an island on the Japanese see, which is 4^th biggest island in Japan except for main island, Kyusyu, Shikoku, Hokkaido. The shape of Sadogashima is so unique, it’s like a “S”, “エ” ,or thunder.

Sadogashima belongs to Niigata prefecture, and is famous for Toki, a bird. Academic name of it is Nipponia Nippon, but Japanese national bird is Kiji, hahaha.

L: Toki. R: Kiji

Toki is facing with extinction. It lives in mainly east Asia,(China, Korea, and Japan),but in 2003, Kin, a last Japanese original Toki, was died. So now we have only Chinese Toki in Japan. it is Sadogashima that have them to bleed and let them live in wild.

In the past, Sadogashima is a place that those exiled to. it is said that it had original culture, like a traditional performing arts (they are still coming down), but because of exile mostly from Kyoto, the culture of Sadogashima and West Japan was mixed and formed a particular one.

There are lots of good scenery places of Mountains and See! Especially, Senkakuwan is very famous. The see is so clear and has lots of shelf of coral!