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Kyushu Island

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By the four major Japanese islands, which is located in the southwest of Kyushu Island.
From the Fukuoka Prefecture in Kyushu, Saga Prefecture, Nagasaki Prefecture, Kumamoto Prefecture, Oita Prefecture, Miyazaki Prefecture, Kagoshima Prefecture, Okinawa Prefecture, a total of eight counties constitute, for the Japan Sea, the East China Sea, surrounded by the Pacific.

All year round warm climate, but including the Kyushu Okinawa region, including most areas of Japan typhoon, flood damage often suffered.
Southwest Islands, Okinawa Prefecture was considered sub-tropical climate, the average temperature around 22 ℃, the annual temperature differences are not there.

From the Chinese mainland close to the Kyushu region, so very prosperous since ancient times, foreigners access to more areas.
Came very early rice cultivation techniques, retains the ancient sites, such as Yoshino major sites in Nagasaki during the Edo period the lock is the only official state policy of trade in Hong Kong, so deep-rooted Catholic culture, as there are many Oura Catholic Church and other Christian buildings. As the Ryukyu Kingdom in Okinawa Prefecture has a unique history and culture, the first list of World Heritage in the city in large part by the Chinese mainland culture.
Preserve the unique history, as well as Fukuoka, Nagasaki and other Japanese cities representative, in addition to popular attention in recent years, the Kurokawa hot springs, hot springs Yufuin many hot springs.
Also retained the smoke of the volcano is still "Sakurajima", the world's largest level of Aso caldera, inscribed on the World Heritage List of Yakushima, and many other magnificent natural landscape.
Food also can enjoy sweet shochu, awamori shochu and other wine, pig ramen, oden, etc. and Nagasaki Kanto, Kinki and do not have a different flavor of food.

Fukuoka Prefecture in northern Kyushu, Honshu and Kyushu is a link to the traffic hub. Comparing the overall warm climate, there are moderate rainfall. Genkai northern counties, the east Suho Beach, southwest of the Ariake Sea, blue fish, puffer fish and other delicacies yield rich, spicy local products as raw materials Pollack roe, water hot pot is popular. And, to seaweed farming Ariake mainly flounder and other fish and shrimp catches are also high. Fukuoka Prefecture in ancient times is Dazaifu location, as the Korean peninsula, and mainland China for cultural exchange of the window has assumed an important role in the world when Hakata Port as the Ryukyu and Southeast Asia, the trade base and prospered, Fukuoka is also due to the above history is well known. Because of the rich coal resources, after the Meiji period, in the iron and steel, machinery, and other areas of support in the 20th century Japanese industrialization development. After World War II but also coal and iron as the center of the rapid rise from the abandoned, most recently through the revitalization of the automobile industry, economic and administrative and other functions around the city gradually concentrated in Fukuoka, Kyushu region as a hub has been flourishing.

Yanagawa City - the historic fishing village still retains its ancient style Yanagawa

  Yanagawa is a city in the world one of the few symbiotic sea water town. In the center of Yanagawa, the canal stretches like a mesh-like flow, and its unique landscape to be included in the historical and cultural heritage. About 400 years ago, these waterways in order to build the tower made of man-made excavation. It completed the water to water water treatment system, and its structure is more diverse is the embodiment of the wisdom of ancestors. The excavation for the guards and the city of ancient drainage is not only a straight line, winding, and its width is also varied.
  The city has six boat to the mouth can take on board more than an hour watching Yanagawa view. Only a bamboo bow 船伕 skilled driving the boat ride, sitting in the canoe boat listening to the melodious songs, sometimes humorous in words, with your color tour season Liuchuan Jing, Nai really poetic.
  About 700 years ago, Yanagawa City, started from the Muromachi period officially ushered in the Santo, and to the Edo period are subject to the rule of Tachibana clan, until today, people still can not lord of the house, "Greenfield Park" (Royal Flower) , "the old family home residential island", and numerous shrines temple overlooking Willow Creek's history.

Kumamoto Prefecture is located in the center of the Kyushu region, north of the mountain is relatively flat, from the distribution of the large area of south east mountains. Deep valley in which everywhere is the majestic valley where the United States unique. Climatic characteristics of the overall fall in the warm climate, but the big difference between cold and warm inland areas, summer temperatures sometimes above 35 degrees, high temperature continued late into the night, and sometimes dropped below freezing in winter. There is also the world famous caldera location, "Aso Kuju National Park", by more than 120 islands of the "Unzen Amakusa National Park", etc., you can see a very beautiful landscape. In tomatoes, watermelon and other Japanese on the production of one of the few agricultural counties, is the production of high levels of rich land. In the pre-war past, Kumamoto be regarded as the center of Kyushu, the establishment of a number of important educational institutions, Natsume, Senou other Japanese writer outside in large numbers.

  • Last visit to Japan: May 1986
  • Intro Written Oct 13, 2010
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    Oct 11, 2010 at 8:01 AM

    I have just read that Japan is one of the healthiest places to live. I hope you will put some tips on your Japan page to encourage me to visit.

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