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Travel pictures and adventure in 20 stories from Japan can be accessed from this page. The images can be downloaded for personal use and sent as a postcard for free. Here, you can also find travel resources, links and useful information for Japan. You can book your hotel and order free brochures about Japan if you are planning to travel to Japan. Click on the thumbnails to read stories and see travel pictures. You can navigate Japan using Google Earth

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Japan

Sometimes apparently western, but not so deep down completely different.

Basic information

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Capital: Tokyo

Population: 128mln

Religions: Predominantly Shinto, Buddhist

Languages: Japanese

Climate: Except for the Hokkaido area and the subtropical Okinawa region, the weather is mostly temperate, with four seasons. Winters are cool and sunny in the south, cold and sunny around Tokyo (which occasionally has snow), and very cold around Hokkaido, which is covered in snow for up to four months a year. Summer, between June and September, ranges from warm to very hot, while spring and autumn are generally mild throughout the country. Rain falls throughout the year but June and early July is the main rainy season. Hokkaido, however, is much drier than the Tokyo area. Rainfall is intermittent with sunshine. Typhoons are only likely to occur in September or October but rarely last more than a day.

Currency: Yen (JPY)

Source: CIA World Factbook

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