Maebashi is where Glen Grinage and Asamisan live.
Title: Tokyo Tower
Description: At 1,093 feet, Tokyo Tower is 43 feet taller than its model, the Eiffel Tower of Paris, and the world’s tallest self-supporting steel tower. It was completed in the year 1958 as a symbol for Japan ‘s rebirth as a major economic power, and serves as a television and radio broadcast antenna and tourist attraction.
This is the Emperor’s Palace converted in about 1860 from the palace/fort of the last (incompetent) Shogun which, when faced with a revolutionary army and irritated Emperor, just walked away. The Emperor moved from Kyoto to Edo renamed to the city of Tokyo , and had new buildings made to replace the Shogun’s buildings. The fortifications were apparently left basically untouched – as they had been in the 1600s.
The guards are at the 1st of two bridges, to a small fortified area
The second bridge leads from the fortified island to the palace grounds.
This is as close as visitors get to the private residence of the Emperor – The Emperor comes out to wave to gathered crowds on Japanese New Year – for 8 hours
It says (four big characters in middle) Bebe Kannon – BeBe means child’s clothes but could also be interpreted as ‘vulva’.
The three charcters below are ‘Chin Pou Kan’: ‘Chin’ is the character for rare or unusual’, Pou (or Hou) is treasure and ‘Kan’ is structure or building.
However this could be a pun because Chin Pou is the vulgar rendering of penis.
The characters at the bottom are the address and tel number of the museum ./s/ Riojasan
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Part of the Jomo Three Mountains, Mt. Akagi-yama is located in the center of Gunma; it is the generic name for the mountain range that includes Mt. Kurobi-san and Mt. Jizo-dake. The inside area of the outer rim of the mountain is designated as Akagi Prefectural Park. Near the mountaintop, between the central crater and outer rim, is a crater lake called Lake O-numa.
At Lake O-numa, visitors can enjoy camping, fishing and boating during the summer, and in winter they can bore holes in the frozen surface of the lake and fish for pond smelts through the ice. Around the month of May, you can marvel at the blossoming of the flowers of ‘mizubasho,’ skunk cabbage, a rare plant that grows in swamps, irises, and ‘Nikko-kisuge,’ a yellow alpine lily. Visitors can enjoy a 4-kilometer hiking course around Lake O-numa, where they can experience the many wonders of nature to their heart’s content.
Besides Akagi Nature Park, Mt. Akagi-yama includes leisure facilities such as Gunma Flower Park and Akagi-kogen Highland Pasture “Kronenberg,” which reproduces the sceneries of German villages. The area also boasts several spectacular waterfalls such as the 50-meter-high Fudo-Otaki, Otome-no-taki, and Asahi-no-taki, all with nearby hot springs where bathers can relax on one-day trips.
http://www.jnto.go.jp/eng/location/regional/gumma/akagisan.html
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