Showing posts with label Japan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Japan. Show all posts

Japan - Kyoto Pictorial City Map

I visited Kyoto and enjoyed walking around this historic cultural city. Nice map postcard of Kyoto with clear Kyoto cancellations. Thanks to Asami of Japan.

Japan - List of Prefectures

I am collecting a postcard from each prefecture in Japan. If you have a postcard from my missing prefecture, please send to or swap with me.

HOKKAIDO
1. Hokkaido

TOHUKU
2. Aomori
3. Iwate
4. Miyagi (missing)
5. Akita
6. Yamagata (missing)
7. Fukushima (missing)

KANTO
8. Ibaraki (missing)
9. Tochigi
10. Gunma
11. Saitama (missing)
12. Chiba
13. Tokyo
14. Kanagawa

CHUBU
15. Niigata
16. Toyama
17. Ishikawa
18. Fukui (missing)
19. Yamanashi (missing)
20. Nagano
21. Gifu
22. Shizuoka
23. Aichi


KANSAI
24. Mie
25. Shiga
26. Kyoto
27. Osaka
28. Hyōgo
29. Nara
30. Wakayama


CHUGOKU
31. Tottori (missing)
32. Shimane
33. Okayama
34. Hiroshima
35. Yamaguchi (missing)

SHIKOKU
36. Tokushima
37. Kagawa
38. Ehime
39. Kōchi (missing)

KYUSHU
40. Fukuoka
41. Saga
42. Nagasaki
43. Kumamoto
44. Ōita
45. Miyazaki
46. Kagoshima
47. Okinawa

The major islands of Japan are Honshu, Hokkaido, Kyushu and Shikoku as well as the Okinawa islands.

Postcard 1 - Major tourist sites in Japan
Stamp is a temple in Kagawa prefecture in Shikoku. Thanks to Aki who mailed this card from Saitama near Tokyo.





Postcard 2 - Map of Japanese traditional folk toys
Arigatou to Emi-chan for this nice postcard sent from Tochigi, Japan.


Japan - Nozomi

Nozomi operates on Tokaido Shinkansen line with maximum operating speed of 285 km/h. Thanks to to Masako of Yokohama, Japan.

Japan - Nijntje

Nijntje or Miffy postcard with Miffy stamp from Japan. Thanks to Rie of Japan.