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Day 4 - Asahigawa

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December 20th 2013
So today I did what I planned to do. Only the sake brewery is more like an old school brewery museum that shown old bits of a brewery rather than showing you how to brew sake. And the beer museum is for lunch rather than a beer museum like Sapporo. I walked for miles too, because the beer museum isn't open when I got there so I went to brewery and then walked all the way back ... read more

Asia » Japan » Hokkaido » Asahikawa

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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