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Meriken Park in Hyogo 6

Meriken Park in Hyogo

Lily

Meriken Park, a waterfront park created from reclaimed land in Kobe City in 1987, was refurbished in 2017. It features the BE...

Hyogo
Egaraten Shrine in Kamakura 11

Egaraten Shrine in Kamakura

Lily

Egaraten Shrine, in Kamakura, is dedicated to Sugawarano Michizane, a Heian Period nobleman and scholar. Since then, the shri...

Kanagawa
Tea Harvest in Kumano

Tea Harvest in Kumano

Alena Eckelmann

Living in a village near Hongu on the the Kumano Kodo trail, I have watched my neighbors pick tea leaves from the tea bushes ...

Wakayama