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Hot Springs in the City hot springs (©JNTO) Japan's islands are the site of numerous volcanoes. The pressure and heat lying just below the earth's surface result in spectacular and dangerous er

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3. A Healthy Habit, but Mind Your Manners Roten-buro An up-market onsen from which bathers can see outside (©JNTO) A long soak in a sento, or any kind of onsen, provides more than just hot wate

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4. A Guide to Tokyo Bathing Azabu Juban Onsen People relax in an onsen "leisure facility." (©PANA) If you're in Tokyo and you want to give the sento experience a try, there are a number of plac

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Metro Network JR East Railway Lines National Diet Tokyo Waterworks Science Museum Tokyo Port Wild Bird Park Yumenoshima Tropical Greenhouse Dome Fukugawa Edo Museum Transportation Museum National Mu

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Kaiseki cuisine,a multi-course feast of traditional Japanese dishes. Kaiseki cuisine,a multi-course feast of traditional Japanese dishes. (©JNTO) Japan's history of dining out is said to have o

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Port of Yokohama Port of Yokohama (©JNTO) Chinatown in Yokohama One of the five gates to Chinatown (©Yokohama Chinatown Development Association) Motomachi dori Motomach-dori (©Motomac

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Fujiya Hotel A prestigious inn in Hakone (©Fujiya Hotel) A little less than two hours southwest of central Tokyo by express train lies Hakone, a town known throughout Japan for its fabulous hot

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daihachiguruma enlarged picture This photo was taken at Shirobe landing around 1870. It shows four of the large wagons known as daihachiguruma. The waterway in the background is the Imperial Palace

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By Yukiko Hashimoto Curator, Edo-Tokyo Museum Japan pursued a policy of seclusion during the Edo period (1603-1868), and some people may be under the impression that the nation was entirely cut off

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British Embassy The British Embassy (©British Embassy) Chidorigafuchi Chidorigafuchi moat with cherry trees in full bloom (©JNTO) The Ministry of Justice The Ministry of Justice (©Min

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Central Tokyo is undergoing a major transformation. Until recently the city has tended to expand outwards, stretching further and further into surrounding areas, but now this trend is reversing as a

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Maru Building Marunouchi Building (©Mitsubishi Estate Co, LTD.) In the 1980s and early 1990s the focus of urban redevelopment projects was on peripheral areas of Tokyo, raising fears that the c

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