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Otona Shima Ryugaku — Island Living Program
Ama-cho, Oki Islands, Shimane
The island's unofficial motto is "Nai mono wa nai" — what isn't here, isn't needed. It's a quiet provocation, aimed at e
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Daily
Goto Islands Farming and Fishing Life Experience
Fukue Island and the Goto Islands, Goto, Nagasaki
A life with both sea and field. The Goto Islands of Nagasaki are a scattering of more than a hundred and forty islands i
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毎年10月第2土・日
Tsushima Izuhara Hachiman Festival: Between Two Countries
Izuhara Hachimangu Shrine, Tsushima City, Nagasaki
On a clear day from Tsushima's highest points, you can see the Korean peninsula — not a distant shimmer but the actual o
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通年（8:30〜17:00）
Ryusendo Cave: Underground Lake of Iwate
1-1 Kannari, Iwaizumi-cho, Shimohei-gun, Iwate
Deep inside the mountain, the cave opens into a lake. The water is so clear that the measured visibility exceeds ninety-
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通年
Amami Oshima: Music and Jungle at the Edge of the Tropics
Amami City and Yamato Village, Kagoshima
Amami Oshima is not Okinawa and not the Japanese mainland; it is the largest island of an archipelago with its own disti
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年数回（旧正月・敬老の日ほか）
Tokunoshima Bullfighting: Where Bulls Compete, Not Matadors
Tokunoshima Island, Oshima-gun, Kagoshima
Tokunoshima's bullfighting is not the Spanish kind. The bulls fight each other, not a human opponent, and the match ends
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毎年6月24日
Izawanomiya Rice-Planting Festival
Izawanomiya Shrine, Isobe, Shima, Mie
On June 24 each year, in the rice country behind Shima's famous coastline, one of Japan's three great rice-planting fest
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例年1月中旬〜2月上旬
Echizen Coast Daffodil Festival
Echizen Suisen no Sato Park, 43-25 Ikuracho, Fukui
Try to name a flower that blooms in Japan in January. The list is short, and on this coast it has one entry.
The Echize
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毎年9月第3金曜から3日間
Kuji Autumn Festival
Central Kuji, Iwate
The floats in Kuji move. Not merely along the street, which any float does, but upward and outward: figures and ornament