Hokkaido is the second largest island in Japan after Honshu. Its area is 83,453 square meters. The population, as of September 30, 2021, is 5,310,559 people. The administrative capital of Hokkaido Prefecture is the city of Sapporo, one of Japan’s metropolises, a large-scale center of economy and industry. A Brief […]
Daily Archives: February 7, 2023
Almost everyone who comes here for the first time expects to see a gloomy place, weighed down by memories of a tragic past, but they are met by a hospitable city open to the future. The experience of Hiroshima teaches a lot. As a symbol of the desire for peace, […]
located in the central part of the island of Honshu. The area of the prefecture is 6356 sq. km. Population – about 2 million people. The administrative center is Maebashi. It borders Niigata and Fukushima Prefectures to the north, Tochigi Prefecture to the east, Saitama Prefecture to the south, and […]
Located in the center of Honshu, Gifu Prefecture is a place that changed the course of Japanese history forever. The famous battle of Sekigahara took place in 1600 in the city of Gifu of the same name. Tokugawa Yeyasu won the battle, after which he and his heirs ruled Japan […]
FUKUI is a prefecture located almost in the center of the Japanese archipelago. Its area is relatively small – a little less than 4.2 thousand square meters. km, of which 75 percent are forests. The western hilly part of Fukui gently rolls down to the huge Wakasa Bay with dozens […]