Aomori
They might look kind of funny at first glance, but now we’re laughing all the way to the kitchen.
On average, parents in Prefecture #1 are paying around five times more to send kids to school than parents in Prefecture #47.
It looks like a science fiction monster of the week, but it’s actually a salute the millennia-old past.
Not a Shinkai or Miyazaki anime, nor a CG-created wonderland, this is one of Japan’s best train journeys.
Public broadcaster NHK chose a strange way to show the “waist-deep snow” of this hot spring town in northern Japan.
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Photos show rural Aomori town’s continuing tradition of artistic agriculture with convenient access for travelers.
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