Shinkansen

As fast as a speeding Bullet train!

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February 12th 2013
{Anna} We have come to stay with our friends Mark, Yoko, Jasmine and Joshua. They live a long way from Tokyo and we had to travel on a train to get here. There were lots of different trains at the railway station. Our train was the green one and it has a long nose. It was a whizzy fast train. {Dad} We travelled by train to a city called Goshogawara ... read more

Asia » Japan » Aomori » Hirosaki

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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