In this case, the more you begin to delve into the local nuances, the more you try to understand what is wrong and why, the greater the differences.
Well tourists: they have enough Fudzhyyamy. Guides are also not very difficult: if a traveler is to say that indubitably it is not Fudzhyyama, and Mount Fuji - character is the same, but it reads differently, he (the tourist) already feels insight into aged cultures. Next is ordinarily a good guide reading poetry. You can start the classics: "Crawl snail on the slope of Mount Fuji, up to the heights ...."
Coordinate axes are oriented from West to East. Civilization was born in the west of the archipelago. As a result, two thousand years, they moved east. Over time, the East was over, rested in the Pacific, went to the north, but still believed that to the east. New, officially renamed for the opening Capital - East. A thousand years ago the then east to Japan - Yamato was the edge of a wild, undeveloped and dangerous. Now this remains largely the north - Hokkaido.
North
Again, the coincidence of contradictions: the north of Japan is also not quite hear, for us east, splits into Near, Middle and Far. On the one hand all is straightforward - there is the northern island of Hokkaido, it is homonymous prefecture with its capital in Sapporo, is a cold snowy climate, development of processing industry, fishing, world-famous snow festival in Sapporo, mountains. Driving up to Sapporo, to think: the huge island barely located in their central part. In Sapporo snow, but only on the roads. Strictly under the sidewalks paved central heating pipes going into homes (Hokkaido - the only prefecture in Japan, where such heating is). As a result, heat homes, the sidewalks clean. Hokkaido roughly paradise.
East
It is today the east - a thriving Japan, Japan Government, Tokyo, Japan. East - is first and foremost, in Greater Tokyo - 24 million inhabitants. Appearances entirely different: sometimes it seems that young citizen in the city center with its full complement removed in some sci-fi movie, which tells about the hereafter of Earth. In this case, a model of development on the Hollywood canon adopted America. You can, of course, retire to the bedroom low-rise areas, where it seems to be roughly obliterated, and you can go to the city center or vice versa, in the ocean suburbs - Yokohama or Yokosuka. The abundance of American troops bases affects the local citizen - a girl in every way show their love for the U.S. Military. Those occasionally supportive, but on the whole rather critically surveys the young ladies in jeans slightly bowed out of the dresses and bizarre cityscapes: Tokyo is highly difficult to attribute to the masterpieces of urban sprawl and "City of the Future" to "Solaris" filmed here too.
West
West Japan - the cradle of its civilization, plain Yamato, the aged capital of Nara and Kyoto, trade monsters Osaka and Kobe. citizen say here in a special dialect, which is easy to understand tokiytsy, but which is also indubitably distinguishes it from the owners of a crowd of residents of eastern prefectures. No open hostility and exact statements. This is Japan - one of the most of decent world, where if one roommate wakes up at night barking his strange dog, she did not complain to her owner directly, and find a common acquaintance, who asked to make a comment.
West Japan - its a national treasure, which is probably much larger than its eastern industrial and financial supermegapolis. Palaces and temples of Kyoto - is something to admire than the Americans. West Japan - it is also Osaka. Majestic, one of the world's most gorgeous castles and a huge city - the center of the electronic and many other industries in Japan. The city, which still in the Xvii Century held its first in world history futures trading on the exchange. The town - birthplace of Kabuki theater, where all the female roles are played by men, and the city money and free from the conventions of samurai citizen which owe their birth geisha quarters in nearby Kyoto, and there are already women play male roles.
West - it is also Kobe - the center of shipbuilding manufactures of the great marine power and the headquarters of the most romantic and shrouded in legend mafia on the planet - the Yakuza. When now talked about Kobe, then remember the devastating earthquake of 1995, which claimed thousands of lives, caused the huge material damage. Port of Kobe for a long time then stopped his work, and the first who came to help residents affected by the earthquake, were bandit brigade. For decades, straight through Kobe in Japan came straight through foreign influences in the form of merchants, industrialists, missionaries. This is now a cosmopolitan city, a city that always is not enough space on the ground, and he wrested himself more and more areas of the ocean.
Strictly speaking, the west of Japan - is still and the two smallest of the largest of its islands - Kyushu and Shikoku. Gravitating toward the south, they are already dissimilar in climate from the central - western and eastern areas, not to mention the northern Hokkaido. Here the subtropics and tropics.
South
This, of course, not Hokkaido, but the citizen density of Shikoku and Kyushu, and even more so bearing down on the small islands south can not compete with the central Japan. The most advanced of these areas - Kyushu. He was so throughout Japanese history, noted for the fact that constantly create clans rebels stirred the country with their audacious ideas for hundreds of years. Here, all the rebel and always: the samurai and the peasants, the defenders of the troops government - the shogunate and the newly converted Christians. Hence, in Kyushu, a native clan Hiraoka, gave the Japanese writer Yukio Mishima, who described the burning of the Golden Pavilion in Kyoto, and rebel-alone Reheya Uchida. Work here a lot, but on a nearby island on the map looked like just on the bread crumbs even a spaceport.
But, of course, the real south of Japan - is Okinawa, Ryukyu Archipelago. About 120 islands, stretching from Kyushu to Taiwan, whose residents are still not quite sure that they are Japanese. Okinawa is closest to the Asian mainland, and therefore much easier to Japan itself was subjected to invasions. For a long time in China depending on Okinawa, then was conquered by the Japanese, but in our time by the Americans. The battle for Okinawa was included in some of the most bloodiest in the history of World War Ii, killing 200,000 citizen just with the Japanese side. And Okinawa - the only prefecture in Japan, where there is no communal vehicle network.
It turns out, Japan - not a small country. She's more of Italy or Germany, at least, diverse. Well, then, that we think it a little, so it's just because there is not so, the coordinate axes are displaced.
