The Kawaguchiko Music Forest (河口湖オルゴールの森, Kawaguchiko Orgel no Mori) is a small theme park and museum devoted to automatic musical instruments. Its main hall displays antique music boxes, mechanical organs and other automatic musical instruments mostly from European countries. The largest of them is a French fairground organ from 1905 which takes up an entire hall and plays every 30 minutes. The main building also houses a concert hall where c...

People all around the World love sake! Sake is Japanese rice wine. It can be brewed different ways like other types of alcohols, which gives it different appearances and tastes. Japanese people once called sake Omiki, or “sacred wine,” and have a tradition since ancient times of offering it to the Gods on special occasions. . Now, people enjoy sake on a regular basis, just like beer or wine are drunk in the West. Clear water from Mt. Fuji is the key to gr...

Mount Fuji's past eruptions and resulting lava flows have created multiple caves in the Fuji Five Lake region around the mountain's northern base. Today, three of these caves have been developed and opened to tourists to be explored. Bat Cave The Bat Cave, named after its former winter inhabitants, is the most extensive of the three caves. In total the cave is nearly 350 meters long and has multiple large chambers and diverging tunnels to be explored. Some of ...

The Fuji Five Lakes (富士五湖, Fujigoko) are made up of Lake Kawaguchiko, Lake Yamanakako, Lake Saiko, Lake Shojiko and Lake Motosuko at the northern base of Mount Fuji. The five lakes were formed hundreds of years ago by lava flows which dammed up rivers during Mount Fuji's multiple eruptions. Interestingly, three of the lakes, Saiko, Shojiko and Motosuko are still connected with each other by underground waterways and consequently maintain the same surface...

A Moment of Silence in Hiroshima Historical Background: Hiroshima: Source: Modern World History: Patterns of Interaction · The bomb was dropped on Hiroshima on August 6th, 1945. The Japanese were amongst the last to not surrender for the war · 8:16am the bomb was dropped 600m above Hiroshima (Southern Japan) · The plane that dropped the bomb was named the Enola Gay. · The A-bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki had na...