Thank you for choosing our Around Japan in a Half Day Tour on May 31st,2025. We welcomed 1 guest from UK. 2 students of Kanda University of Foreign Studies participated in our tour. I hope all of you enjoyed and shared interesting conversations with us during the tour. As promised, group photos and snapshots are attached to remember the fun times we had.
In our Tokyo Free Walking Tour we visited three antenna shops. The final one is Fukushima. Do you know the attractiveness of Fukushima?
There are three reasons why you should visit Fukushima for sightseeing , short distance from Tokyo, historic beauty of Tsuruga Castle and delicious food.
First is Fukushima Prefecture is in the southernmost part of the Tohoku region and is located just a short distance from the Tokyo metropolitan area, about 1.5 hours bullet train from Tokyo. It has the third-largest land area of any prefecture in Japan and is divided into three regions- Aizu, Central and Coastal – each with its own climate. There are more than 1.8 million people in Fukushima prefecture.
Second is Aizu-Wakamatsu City is known for its well-preserved samurai district, including Tsuruga Castle and the Aizu Bukeyashiki (samurai residences), offering insights into Japan’s feudal era. In this castle the white walls and red-tiled roof evoke the bird’s white feathers and red crown. This castle was built in 1593, before Edo period.
In the end of Edo period, there is a Boshin war. It was the shogunate warriors resisted the New Meiji Government. Aizu samurai fought hard but ultimately surrendered.
In our Ueno tour there is a tomb of Shogi Tai. Shogi Tai was the guardian group of Tokugawa Yoshinobu who was the last Shogun in 1868. Ueno was the battlefield of Boshin War. If you have a chance to go Ueno Park of Tokyo Free Walking Tour, please compare.
Third is delicious food. Kitakata ramen is the most famous food for being topped with lots of pork meat. Noodles are usually thick, flat, curly and firm. Pork bones and fish stock are made separately and mixed later to make the soup of Kitakata ramen. We and guest ate Kitakata ramen at the Fukushima antenna shops. She said it very delicious.
One more sad history is the Fukushima Nuclear power plant radiation leak accident caused by Tsunami. In March 11th 2011, a magnitude 9 earthquake was recorded off the coast of Tohoku in the Pacific Ocean, and the ensuing tsunami, about 10m high in places, hit the coast across a vast region from Tohoku to Kanto. The number of dead and missing after the earthquake and tsunami reached nearly 18,000. There are still evacuees recently.
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(Posted by Yonehara)