Japan 17 From Tokyo to Takayama

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JAPAN
Short but sweet touching trip
From Tokyo to Takayama
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Takayama is a city in the mountainous Hida
region of Gifu Prefecture. Takayama retains a
traditional touch like few other Japanese cities,
especially in its beautifully preserved old town.
It now ranks as one of the prime candidates among
travelers wishing to add a rural element into
their itineraries
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The trains are clean, efficient, punctual, and
comfortable
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In a display of the Japanese' trademark
discipline, passengers queue patiently while
waiting for the arrival of a Shinkansen bullet
train
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The Tokaido Shinkansen is a shinkansen line that
connects Japan's three largest metropolitan areas
(Tokyo/Yokohama, Nagoya and Osaka/Kyoto) with
each other. It is Japan's best used shinkansen
line with departures every few minutes
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The Angels- A train cleaning team Everybody in
their places
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Cleaning crew (in pink) waiting for the train to
arrive
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At least one book has been written about these
train cleaners, CNN produced a special report on
them and dozens of magazine articles have covered
them in detail
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The Japanese railway system takes it to a whole
new level impeccably clean, efficient, and
reliable. There is no better way to get around
the country.
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Specific queuing etiquette at Japan's stations
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The Angels of Shinkansen cleaning Top team of
Japan Shinkansen is almost as expensive as a
flight ticket, but in many cases much faster.
What you can do to get a discount is to order the
JR pass online before you go to Japan
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The Japan Rail Pass can be used by foreign
tourists only, and offers unlimited use
of JR trains for one, two or three weeks at a
cost that residents of Japan can only dream
of. The JR Pass must be purchased before your
arrival to Japan, because it is not available for
sale inside Japan
You can buy a JR pass if you are a foreign
tourist visiting Japan from abroad for
sight-seeing, under the entry status of
"temporary visitor. It can be used on Japan Rail
operated trains (including Shinkansen), local
lines of JR bus companies and JR Miyajima ferry
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 A soft voice announcing in English (and in
Japanese of course), which stop is the next one
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When opened in 1964, the Tokaido Shinkansen was
the world's first high speed railway line. Then
trains already ran at 210 km/h. Nowadays they
reach speeds of 285 km/h. The line is operated by
the Central Japan Railway Company, also known as
JR Central or JR Tokai. Tokaido is the name of
the main road, which connected the former capital
of Kyoto with today's capital of Tokyo during the
Edo Period
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From Tokyo to Takayama (via Nagoya) Pictures
taken through the window of the train 
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The kanji that make up Japan's name mean "sun
origin", and Japan is often called the "Land of
the Rising Sun"
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Japan is a stratovolcanic archipelago of 6,852
islands
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Japan's population of 126 million is the world's
tenth largest
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Approximately 9.1 million people live in Tokyo
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The first written mention of Japan is in Chinese
history texts from the 1st century AD
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The country has the world's third-largest
economy by nominal GDP
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The country has the world's fourth-largest
economy by purchasing power parity
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Japan is the world's fifth-largest exporter 
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 It is also the world's fifth-largest importer 
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Japan consists of forty-seven prefectures
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Each prefecture is overseen by an elected
governor, legislature and administrative
bureaucracy
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Each prefecture is further divided into cities,
towns and villages
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The nation is currently undergoing administrative
reorganization by merging many of the cities,
towns and villages with each other
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This process will reduce the number of
sub-prefecture administrative regions and is
expected to cut administrative costs
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Japan has a total of 6,852 islands extending
along the Pacific coast of East Asia
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About 73 percent of Japan is forested,
mountainous, and unsuitable for agricultural,
industrial, or residential use 
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The habitable zones, mainly located in coastal
areas, have extremely high population densities
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Japan is one of the most densely populated
countries in the world
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The islands of Japan are located in
a volcanic zone on the Pacific Ring of Fire
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Japan has 108 active volcanoes. During the
twentieth century several new volcanoes emerged,
including Showa-shinzan on Hokkaido and
Myojin-sho off the Bayonnaise Rocks in the Pacific
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Destructive earthquakes, often resulting
in tsunami, occur several times each century
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Due to its location in the Pacific Ring of Fire,
Japan is substantially prone to earthquakes and
tsunami, having the highest natural disaster risk
in the developed world
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The climate of Japan is predominantly temperate,
but varies greatly from north to south
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Japan is a world leader in fundamental scientific
research, having produced twenty-one Nobel
laureates in either physics, chemistry or
medicine, three Fields medalists, and one Gauss
Prize laureate
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Japan's road spending has been extensive. Its 1.2
million kilometers of paved road are the main
means of transportation. However, at just 50
percent of all distance traveled, car usage is
the lowest of all G8 countries
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There are 175 airports in Japan
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Since privatisation in 1987, dozens of Japanese
railway companies compete in regional and local
passenger transportation markets major companies
include seven JR enterprises, Kintetsu
Corporation, Seibu Railway and Keio Corporation.
Some 250 high-speed Shinkansen trains connect
major cities and Japanese trains are known for
their safety and punctuality
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