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An industrial town in northern Mie, and the district of Tokyo that lies west of Iidabashi on the Sobu Line | |
Two prefectural capitals on the island of Shikoku | |
An archipelago in Kumamoto Prefecture, and the longest-named of the Three Views of Japan | |
The former castle town of Kato Kiyomasa in Kyushu, and an area in southern Kansai known for its ancient pilgrim trails | |
The original names of both Nara and Kyoto | |
Two mountainous areas of Kansai, made famous by the ninja | |
The largest city of the Ryukyu Islands, and the northern third of Tochigi Prefecture | |
Two of Japan's twelve remaining original castles, one in Fukui Prefecture, the other in Kagawa Prefecture | |
Osaka's otaku district, and Tokyo's most notoriously salaryman-focused station area | |
Takeda Shingen's seat of power, and the original capital of Kyushu | |
A Tokyo suburb in northwest Kanagawa Prefecture, and the site of Tokugawa Ieyasu's decisive victory in 1600 | |
The historical capital and largest city of the Hida region, and the current capital of the prefecture bordering it to the north | |
Two old provinces of Japan, one in modern Kyoto Prefecture and one in modern Hiroshima Prefecture, both of which are homonyms of English nouns | |
The largest city of Tohoku, and a sacred mountain in Tottori Prefecture | |
A mountainous region of Saitama Prefecture, and the largest of the Ogasawara Islands | |
A Kyushu peninsula known for rebellious Christians, and an island south of Kyushu famous for muskets and rocket launches | |
The second largest Japanese city to avoid American bombs, and the Uesugi clan's last castle town | |
Shinzo Abe's hometown in the far west of Honshu, and the location of the Dutch trading colony during the Edo Period | |
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Two Yamanote Line stations in Tokyo, the closest to the Metropolitan Government Building and Meiji Shrine respectively | |
The leading green tea producing prefecture of Japan, and the hometown of Momotaro | |
The second least populated prefecture, and Japan's easternmost town | |
The fishing port that was once Southern Kyushu's only foreign gateway, and the only prefectural capital with one syllable in its name | |
The largest city of eastern Aomori Prefecture, and a plateau in a national park to the southwest of that city | |
A Tokyo district famous for its November 'Bird Market', and the home of a rare Japanese species of wildcat | |
A town in Ibaraki Prefecture important to the history of Aikido, and a town in western Honshu with an American military base | |
Two towns in Aichi Prefecture, one named after a car manufacturer, the other recorded as having Japan's best Quidditch team | |
The sixth largest island of Japan, and a town with an important shrine to Hachiman which shares its name with a country | |
An isolated town halfway up Hokkaido's Okhotsk coast, and the most famous hot spring resort on the same island | |
An area of Kyoto famous for kimono production, and an area of Osaka famous for danger | |
A town near Osaka famous for an all-female theatre troupe, and the site of Narita Airport made famous by fierce protests | |
The former name of the centre of Saitama City, and a peninsula south of Tokyo that was once home to a samurai from Kent | |
The only Japanese castle on Hokkaido, and the capital of the prefecture between Tochigi and Nagano | |
Two Tokyo suburbs, one made famous by a motorcycle company, the other with a large immigrant population | |
Two historic towns and tourist spots, one in Kanagawa Prefecture, the other in Okayama Prefecture | |
A city on the western tip of Honshu famous for fugu fish, and a fashionable district of south-western Tokyo | |
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