Japan
Japan
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About Japan
The ''Land of the Rising Sun'' consists of an island archipelago with over 3,000 islands that are mountainous in the interior. The largest and main islands are, from north to south, Hokkaido, Honshu (the largest island), Shikoku and Kyushu.
Most of the people live tightly packed in the coastal plains and fewer than 25% of Japan's people live in rural areas. Twenty percent of the world's earthquakes take place in Japan, which sits on the boundaries of at least three tectonic plates and the countryside is riddled with hundreds of volcanoes and hot springs overlooking pastoral paddy fields.
Japan also is the home the most modern cities like Tokyo, Osaka, Sapporo and Kyoto. Between the neon signs and the skyscrapers you will also find tradional pagodas and shrines.
Top destinations in Japan
Cities in Japan
- Akita
- Chiba
- Fukui
- Fukuoka
- Hakone
- Hiroshima
- Kagoshima
- Kamagura
- Kanazawa
- Kawasaki
- Kitakyushu
- Kobe
- Kochi
- Kumamoto
- Kyoto
- Matsue
- Matsuyama
- Morioka
- Nagano
- Nagasaki
- Nagoya
- Naha
- Nara
- Nikko
- Osaka
- Saitama
- Sakai
- Sapporo
- Sendai
- Takayama
- Tokyo
- Tottori
- Toyama
- Wakayama
- Yamagata
- Yamaguchi
- Yokohama
General information
- Capital: Tokyo
- Language: Japanese
- Climate: Its climate varies from region to region: the far north is very cold in the winter, while the far south is subtropical. In the late summer and early autumn, typhoons develop often bringing heavy rain.
- Timezone: UTC+9
- Currency: Yen( JPY)
- Electricity plugs: a b (show)
- No. of inhabitants: 127.9 million (UN, 2005)
- Interl. accesscode +81
- Toplevel domain .jp
- Travel alert: EnjoyYourWorld strongly advises you to take necessary precautions for a safe travel. For more info please follow this link
Good to know
Japan has a very modern society but still retains plenty ot its mystical historical culture, with the etiqutte demanded in social life, rice paper screens, rigidly raked Zen gardens and myriad of ancient shrines and temples, where saints are venered according to century old customs.
Religion: Shintoism, Buddhism
National holiday: Birthday of Emperor Akihito, 23 December
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