Have you ever...

Have you ever seen Mt. Fuji from the window of a speeding Shinkansen?
Have you ever stood on the bridge, in Hiroshima, that was the aiming point for the atomic bomb?
Have you ever been jostled by the rush-hour crowds at Shinjuku Station?
Have you ever watched snow falling silently on a mountainside in Niigata Prefecture?
Have you ever strolled through the Zen garden at Ginkaku-ji, in Kyoto?
Have you ever climbed Kobe’s Port Tower?
Have you ever crunched through the snow of a Hokkaido winter?
Have you ever looked down on the ‘keyhole’ burial mound of Emperor Nintoku as you flew into Itami Airport?
Have you ever ridden the funicular railway up to Koya-san?
Have you ever walked through Wakayama- jo Park at the end of cherry blossom season and seen it raining pink and white petals?
Have you ever gotten lost in the narrow streets of Shinsaibashi on a hot, humid Osaka night?
Have you ever queued for nikumanju in the hurly-burly of Yokohama’s Chinatown?
　　Japan…Japan…Japan…

By Roland

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