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A major Global player, Japan has the world's third-largest economy. Many tourist visit Japan, amongst the mix of forestry, mountains, rural and metropolitan urban development, there are many sites to visit. Japan is an island nation in East Asia, an archipelago of 4 major and 4,000 smaller islands situated in the Pacific ocean along the Eastern coast of Asia. Japan is located east of the Korean Peninsula which is across the sea of Japan, northeast of China across the East China Sea and South East of Russia, with the Sea of Okhotsk in the middle. The largest river in Japan is Shinano.

There is a long ridge of mountains that run through Japan, the main mountains ranges are, Akaishi, Hido and Kiso that are over 9500feet high. The highest mountain is Mount Fuji which is also Tokyo’s dormant volcano. The location of the islands of Japan means that the country is prone to earthquakes and some volcanic activity.

The climate in Japan sees extremely warm summers and mild winters. There is a lot of rain and rainy seasons during the summer. The 4 major islands are called; Honshu, Hokkaido, Kyushu and Shikoku.

In Honshu, there are major Japanese cities and 23 special wards of Tokyo. A quarter of the population resides in and around the areas of Tokyo and Yokohama. The other highly populated areas include Kyoto, Osaka, Kobe, Sendai, Hiroshima and Nagoya.

Honshu is connected to the islands of Hokkaido, Kyushu and Shikoku by a set of tunnels and bridges. Most of the great ports of Japan are in Honshu. Kansai Prefecture is in the large Japanese island of Honshu on the western side of Japan.

Towns in Kansai include; Mie, Shiga, Kyoto, Osaka, Hyogo, Nara and Wakamaya. Hyogo and Kyoto are north, Nara in the East, Wakayama in the south, and Osaka Bay on the West, Yodo and Yamato Rivers flow through. The climate in the region is mild with humid summers of around 28 – 30 degrees Celsius and crisp cold winters of about 6 degrees Celsius.

The warm June weather is also the rainy season. The capital city of Kansai is Osaka. Osaka is Japan’s second smallest prefecture by size but there are over 2million people in the city and over 17 million in the greater Osaka metropolitan area making it the second most populated region of greater Tokyo.

a 40 minute journey will take you to the other Kansai cities with tourist sites such as; ancient ruins in Kyoto, heritage sites in Nara and fashionable Wakayama. Osaka is 65 minutes away from Kansai airport.