2-Day Summer Trip from Tokyo to Lake Nojiri | japan-guide.com
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Known as an outdoor lover's paradise, Lake Nojiri in Nagano is an excellent place to visit during summer. In this trip we go kayaking on the lake, take in the view from Nojiriko Terrace, and go cycling through the beautiful rice fields to Naena Waterfall.
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Host and Narrator: Raina Ong
Videographer: Andrew Marston
Producers: Raina Ong & Stefan Schauwecker
The Landlocked Islands of Nikaho, Akita Prefecture | Nippon.com: Japan in Video
The Kisakata Kujūku Islands in the Kisakata district of Nikaho, Akita Prefecture, are actually not islands but outcroppings surrounded by rice paddies. Until about two centuries ago, however, they were islets dotting the surface of a shallow lagoon by the Sea of Japan. And the beauty of this scene was considered comparable to that of Matsushima on the Pacific coast, another scenic spot where many small islands rise from the sea. The famous poet Matsuo Bashō (1644–94) visited Kisakata and was inspired to write a haiku about it. In 1804 a tremendous earthquake struck the area, causing the ground level to rise by more than two meters and thereby turning the bottom of the lagoon into an expanse of land suitable for growing rice. The islands remained as elevations in the midst of the paddies, creating this unusual scene.
The site has been designated a natural monument. A good spot for viewing it is from the observation deck on the roof of Michi no Eki Kisakata-Nemunooka, a roadside rest and shopping facility within walking distance of Kisakata Station on the JR Uetsu Main Line. From this vantage point visitors can also see the Sea of Japan and Mount Chōkai. From mid- through late September, before the ripened rice plants are harvested, the former islands can be seen floating in a sea of golden rice stalks.
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2 Day Trip from Sapporo to Hakodate | japan-guide.com
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In this video we are traveling from Sapporo to Hakodate. Along the way we'll explore Moerenuma Park and the Sapporo Beer Museum in Sapporo before stopping for the night at the quaint lakeside town of Toyako Onsen. On day two we'll visit the area affected by the 2000 eruption of Mt. Usu, then walk around Onuma Park before finally finishing in Hakodate to take in one of the top three night views in all Japan.
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Maps: Charles Sabas
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【10 locations where you want to go by Bullet train】 Introducing the Tohoku tourist spot!
Please have a look at these unique to Tohoku tourist spot!!
You can gently relax in expansive open-air hot springs and experience the gourmet food of each area. It would also be great to taste the Sake, all the more enjoyable because it is from a region where the rice is delicious♪
1.KAKUNODATE(Akita) （0'10）
2.HIROSAKI(Aomori) （0'35）
3.HIRAIZUMI(Iwate) （0'57）
4.SENDAI(Miyagi) （1'29）
5.FURUKAWA(Miyagi) （1'54）
6.OISHIDA(Yamagata) （2'24）
7.Risshakuji Temple(Yamagata) （2'57）
8.Oirase Stream(Aomori) （3'19）
9.GALA Yuzawa(Niigata) （3'40）
10.Tsurugajo Castle(Fukushima) （4'08）
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Ishinomaki Kawanokami Project 2019 石巻・川の上プロジェクト
On March 11th 2011, Japan was struck by the most powerful earthquake in its recorded history. Following the earthquake, a tsunami hit the Eastern coast of Tohoku with a resulting 15,897 deaths, 6,157 injured, and 2,533 missing. One of the areas most heavily damaged was Ishinomaki. Kawanomaki, an area within the city, was used as a relocation site for the victims of the disaster. These survivors have struggled immensely in the time since the tsunami occurred, and so a community development project was initiated by Dr. Hideyuki Miura to unite and bring relief to the community. It is called the Ishinomaki Kawanokami Project. In 2019, during the anniversary of the disaster, the first volunteer work camp took place at the site of the Hyappyoukan Community Center. The goal was to clear a space in the surrounding bamboo forest to begin the next phase of the project.
1:00 Ishinomaki Fukko Machizukuri Jyohokoryukan Chuokan
1:07 Hiyori Mountain: The empty space on the right side of the screen is where a hospital used to be, that was completely destroyed by the tsunami
1:14 Okawa Elementary School: 72 students and 10 teachers died at the site
1:33 Onagawa Cho: Nearly a thousand dead or missing, much of the town was completely destroyed
1:52 Oshima, Matsushima
2:23 Mountain work site, future site of the extended community center
4:34 Hyappyoukan Community Center
4:42 311 Disaster Memorial Museum, Nobiru
4:51 Happi created from the flags of local fishing boats
4:54 Otakamori Mountain
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October 1, 2009 - Dancers at Sendai Station
We happened to come to the station just as these dancers started performing. I think this is related to Sendai-Miyagi tourism promotion campaign.
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2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami | Wikipedia audio article
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00:04:45 1 Earthquake
00:07:11 1.1 Geology
00:11:31 1.2 Energy
00:12:46 1.3 Geophysical effects
00:16:51 1.4 Aftershocks
00:19:04 1.5 Earthquake Warning System
00:20:46 2 Tsunami
00:22:00 2.1 Japan
00:34:40 2.2 Elsewhere across the Pacific
00:39:16 3 Land subsidence
00:41:02 4 Casualties
00:41:11 4.1 Japan
00:46:37 4.2 Overseas
00:47:17 5 Damage and effects
00:49:21 5.1 Ports
00:50:39 5.2 Dams and water problems
00:51:45 5.3 Electricity
00:56:15 5.4 Oil, gas and coal
00:57:43 5.5 Nuclear power plants
01:01:02 5.5.1 Fukushima meltdowns
01:02:47 5.5.2 Incidents elsewhere
01:04:11 5.6 Wind power
01:04:35 5.7 Transport
01:08:50 5.8 Telecommunications
01:09:56 5.9 Defense
01:10:30 5.10 Space center
01:11:07 5.11 Cultural properties
01:12:28 6 Aftermath
01:14:29 7 Humanitarian response
01:14:57 8 Media coverage
01:17:42 9 Scientific and research response
01:21:56 10 See also
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The 2011 earthquake off the Pacific coast of Tōhoku (東北地方太平洋沖地震, Tōhoku-chihō Taiheiyō Oki Jishin) was a magnitude 9.0–9.1 (Mw) undersea megathrust earthquake off the coast of Japan that occurred at 14:46 JST (05:46 UTC) on Friday 11 March 2011, with the epicentre approximately 70 kilometres (43 mi) east of the Oshika Peninsula of Tōhoku and the hypocenter at an underwater depth of approximately 29 km (18 mi).
The earthquake is often referred to in Japan as the Great East Japan Earthquake (東日本大震災, Higashi nihon daishinsai) and is also known as the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake, the Great Sendai Earthquake, the Great Tōhoku Earthquake, and the 3.11 earthquake.
It was the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in Japan, and the fourth most powerful earthquake in the world since modern record-keeping began in 1900.
The earthquake triggered powerful tsunami waves that may have reached heights of up to 40.5 metres (133 ft) in Miyako in Tōhoku's Iwate Prefecture, and which, in the Sendai area, traveled at 435 mph for up to 10 km (6 mi) inland. Residents of Sendai had only eight to ten minutes warning, and more than 19,000 were killed, many at the more than a hundred evacuation sites that washed away.The earthquake moved Honshu (the main island of Japan) 2.4 m (8 ft) east, shifted the Earth on its axis by estimates of between 10 cm (4 in) and 25 cm (10 in), increased earth's rotational speed by 1.8 µs per day, and generated infrasound waves detected in perturbations of the low-orbiting GOCE satellite.
Initially, the earthquake caused sinking of part of Honshu's Pacific coast by up to roughly a metre, but after about three years, the coast rose back and kept on rising to exceed its original height.The tsunami swept the Japanese mainland and killed over ten thousand people, mainly through drowning, though blunt trauma also caused many deaths. The latest report from the Japanese National Police Agency report confirms 15,897 deaths, 6,157 injured, and 2,533 people missing across twenty prefectures, and a report from 2015 indicated 228,863 people were still living away from their home in either temporary housing or due to permanent relocation.A report by the National Police Agency of Japan on 10 September 2018 listed 121,778 buildings as total collapsed, with a further 280,926 buildings half collapsed, and another 699,180 buildings partially damaged. The earthquake and tsunami also caused extensive and severe structural damage in north-eastern Japan, including heavy damage to roads and railways as well as fires in many areas, and a dam collapse. Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan said, In the 65 years after the end of World War II, this is the toughest and the most difficult crisis for Japan. Around 4.4 million households in northeastern Japan were left ...