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Morioka New City Hotel: A Review (Morioka, Japan)
About Morioka New City Hotel Morioka New City Hotel is part of a small chain that is consistently named “[City] New City Hotel.” Other New City Hotels are in Aomori, Akita, Sendai, Tokyo, Nagoya and Osaka. It offers single, double, twin, and family-sized rooms. In addition to the rooms (more on that below), they also…
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Sanriku Fukko National Park: Iwate’s Amazing Coastline
Sanriku Fukkō National Park was established after the 2011 tsunami destroyed many parts of the Tohoku region in Japan. Stretching from Hachinohe in Aomori Prefecture to almost Sendai in Miyagi Prefecture, this coast has some amazing geological features. From the coast, you can see almost a double coastline. At some point in the last 100,000…
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Kamaishi Dai-Kannon Temple: Giant Buddha overlooking Honshu’s Sanriku Coast
Iwate Prefecture in Tohoku is home to Kamaishi Dai-Kannon Temple, a giant Buddhist statue that overlooks Kamaishi harbour and the Sanriku coast. History and Architecture In the late 1960s, the Seikiouzenji Temple in Kamaishi commissioned this statue and a large temple. They commissioned this work from Kou Hawagawa, who created a 48.5-metre statue from concrete…
