Japan Guide to Japan Tourist Information
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The land of the rising sun, Japan is a country whose uniqueness is equalled only by its beauty. A place of contradictions: where people seem to work harder and longer than anywhere else, and yet the leisure facilities are superb, and frequently empty; Where amongst the utterly modern glamour of the cities, you can find ornate Shinto temples; and where in the gardens of peace, you can see some of the most poignant remnants of war.
The capital Tokyo is a vast city of some 12 million people, that lies on the southern coast of the main island Honshu. A city so busy, that the office lights remain on all day and night, and the streets are never empty is also home to areas so calm that you could swear that you were in the middle of the countryside.
Often the culture of Japan is alien to outsiders, the society is strictly polite and ordered, there are many day to day rituals, and people always live up to some stereotype or other - the salary man reading hardcore porn on the train or the school girls giggling behind their hand, but from this order, one of the most colourful and breathtaking cultures in the world has developed. Japanese culture is peppered by attention to detail, and the notion of small is beautiful. It is this concentration on the individual parts of anything that gives the whole it's amazing variety. If you want to see Japan as the Japanese do, then look at things one at a time, and you will see more individual beauty than you can imagine. Look at things from a step back, and you will see the chaos that is created.
The centre of Modern Tokyo is a place of mirror glass high-rise buildings with temples and traditional wooden houses next door to them; it's a place of fantasy shopping malls in Ginza, and gentle wandering in the Gardens of the Imperial Palace. With a wide variety of places to stay: from the famous capsule hotels where your room is a coffin-sized locker in a wall, to the most opulent hotels money can buy. There are also the famous Love hotels in Shibuya, which offer themed rooms, vibrating beds, and "accessories" to ensure that your stay is fun, some even offer a video of your time there when you leave.
Just outside Tokyo, in the Chiba district, you can find Disneyland, a perfect copy of the original, only slightly smaller.
Facts for the Traveller:
Name: Japan
Capital: Tokyo
Area: 377,835 Sq KM
Population: 127 million
Language: Japanese
Flight Time: 15 Hours from London
Currency: Yen
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