Cute designs teach us which prefecture of Japan grows the most bonsai trees and which has the most Shinto shrines.
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You might guess the most popular Pokémon type in the country, but each prefecture might surprise you!
This jaw-dropping video will make you wonder how Tochigi Prefecture came in last in the prefectural popularity poll.
Ranking reveals Japanese impressions of which prefectures seem to boast residents with the best personalities.
A non-profit study sought to determine the best Japanese prefecture to live in, but found interesting discrepancies.
If you don’t like changing trains, Tokyo Station is probably your best bet for a starting point.
Ever wanted to display the famous deer of Nara or the iconic Mount Fuji on your car? Well now you can!
Twitter user makes mind-blowing discovery playing around with puzzle pieces of Japan’s 47 prefectures.
Prefecture names include: Pikachu, Teriyaki, and The Mushroom Kingdom.
Find out how you can create the name of a prefecture simply by moving just one of these matchsticks.
There’s some things you just don’t do when you visit other places. You wouldn’t go around dissing the champagne in France, the pyramids in Egypt, or the Red Sox in Boston. Disrespecting a town or country’s claim to fame is liable to get you glares and maybe even fists from the locals.
And the same thing goes for Japan. Each region is very protective of its local specialties, so much so that they’ve created a Twitter hashtag to show everyone exactly what they should be wary of disrespecting if they visit.
Remember when Tottori Prefecture finally got a Starbucks after all these years of being one of the few places in the world without one? Oh man, that was crazy.
Tottori is just one of those places. The kind of area that’s so quiet and uneventful that not even Starbucks, the corporate giant that’s more than happy to smother historic cultural heritage sites with their over-roasted beans and pricey lattes for a quick buck, spent decades more or less pretending it didn’t even exist. The Prefecture’s population of just over half a million is shockingly small by densely-populated Japan’s standards, and it’s just generally ignored by the rest of Japan as a place that, well… doesn’t have much to see, to put it kindly.
But wait a second! What’s this?! Tottori has been sitting on an amazing tourist draw in the form of a sand sculpture museum that features mind-boggling, award-winning and massive sand sculptures and they basically haven’t even really told anybody about it.