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.
Shinobi training manual covers ingredients to make sleeping potions and smoke bombs, as well as magic incantations.