Street View Page on Japan/Tohoku and Hokkaido
Outline
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TripGeo Street View
Animations
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Street View Screen Captures
Nebuta Matsuri Festival, Aomori City
Nebuta Matsuri is a festival that happens the first week of August
every year in Aomori City, Japan. This festival consists of fireworks, dancing
and music throughout the week. But the main draws are the giant illuminated
paper floats.
View of Hakodate City from the top
of Mt. Hakodate
Lonely Planet Japan describes the
view of Hakodate City from the top of Mt. Hakodate as one of the most famous views
in Japan. Lonely Planet recommends seeing this view at sunset or after dark so
you can see the illuminated city against Hakodate harbor and the Tsugaru Strait.
Sapporo Brewery and Museum in
Sapporo
Sapporo Japan is home to the
oldest beers brewed in the country of Japan. Sapporo�s brewery has been up and
running since 1876, and has a museum as well where
tours are offered. At the end of the tour, you can taste different kinds of Sapporo
beer that can�t be found anywhere else in the world. There is also a large
dining hall inside as well, here you can find folks eating grilled lamb and vegetables
(Ghengis Khan) and drinking plenty of Sapporo.
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Links to Street View Panoramas
Insert three links with descriptions
to Street View Panoramas here.
Example-1: Nebuta
Matsuri festival, Aomori City https://mapstreetview.com/#oazav_2bsqjd_1d.h_6907
Example-2: View of Hakodate City
from Mt. Hakodate https://mapstreetview.com/#ov1mg_2brrg1_3p.0_-j507
Example-3: Sapporo Brewery and
Museum, Sapporo https://mapstreetview.com/#pmt7v_2c5pg4_8z.0_7807
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TripGeo Streetview Player
Route from Aomori Museum of Art to Ringobako
This streetview animation takes us between the Aomori Museum of
Art and Ringbako in Aomori City. This route gives us
an idea of what residential and business areas in the city look like. The final destination is Ringbako,
this is a restaurant in Aomori where guests are entertained by musicians
playing the shamisen.
Route from Mt. Hakodate to the Hakodate
Museum of Northern Peoples
The island
of Hokkaido is romanticized as the wilderness or last frontier of Japan. I
chose this streetview route from the peak of Mt. Hakodate
to the Hakodate Museum of Northern Peoples to show just how quickly one can go
from driving on a rural mountain road to a busy city area. Interestingly
enough, when people began coming to Japan from China and the Korean peninsula
thousands of years ago, there were actual people already inhabiting the
Japanese islands in the North who were called Ainu. The Japanese use to call
the island of Hokkaido, Ezo and referred to the Ainu
people who lived here as barbarians. Not much of the Ainu people or their
culture remain, but recently Japan has agreed to recognize the Ainu as an indigenous
people in Japan, and steps have been taken to preserve what is left of their
culture. I would very much like to better understand the Ainu and what their way
of life was like.
Sapporo Clock Tower to the Sapporo
TV Tower
Link- Route Map and Directions: Sapporo Clock Tower Sapporo Japan to Sapporo TV Tower Sapporo Japan
Sapporo is the largest
city on the island of Hokkaido, and the 5th largest city in Japan. Two of this cities most iconic sites (other than the brewery) are
the Sapporo Clock Tower and the Sapporo TV Tower. As you can see from the screenshot
above, when Sapporo was being built the city was based off of
a North American city grid system. Sapporo even has its own version of Central
Park in the middle.
4 Moore's Where to Invade Next
Moore's documentary is politically
polarizing. Conservative columnists, such as Armon White, are sharply critical of the movie. First,
comment on the validity of White's negative review. Then, putting aside politics,
what can the movie show us about the value of travel in understanding our own
country.
Armon White�s review of this documentary was just as partisan as the
movie he was complaining about. Mr. White may feel like Michael Moore is
unfairly comparing the U.S. to nations in Europe, White can still be proud to be
a U.S. citizen and still admit that there are things that the U.S. needs to
work on and improve. Politics aside, this movie can give us a better look at
how other countries handle things like crime, how they run their prisons, and
how other countries feel about gun laws. All of which are things that can be hot
topics here in the U.S.
Submitted by Davis Clouse on April 4, 2019.