Kimono dress up time in Nagoya

Hiroshima and Beppu

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July 31st 2008
Nagoya, 31st July 2008 We left Hakuba in the morning for Nagoya, a stop only made to hunt out the Nagoya branch of the No.1 Travel office to book our flights out of Japan. After waiting around the office for a good few hours, we managed to get our flights sorted (Japan - Hong Kong and Hong Kong - Ho Chi Minh City) and then headed out for some dinner, a wander around Nagoya city and then back to ... read more

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In 1603, a Tokugawa shogunate (military dictatorship) ushered in a long period of isolation from foreign influence in order to secure its power. For 250 years this policy enabled Japan to enjoy stability and a flowering of its indigenous culture. Fol... ... read more