Sapporo is a Japanese city, which is one of the best winter resorts of the country. The good weather and the infrastructure makes the city attractive, beautiful and preferred for winter sports from more than 14 million people every year. The city was elected for the home of the Winter Olympic Games in 1972, which is admission for the beauty and for the quality infrastructure of the city. Sapporo is situated on Hokkaido island and impress the visitors with good vision, nice sightseeings and really good and cozy atmosphere. Japan is well known with the beauty of the nature, the good industrialization and the quality services. However Sapporo is absolute prove of these words and we can see the beauty of the city from the first sight. The large skiing tracks and ski-jumping facility is situated in the suburbs of the city and can be reached via lift. Definitely from here you can see the whole city and the beautiful landscapes. Also a lot of festivals are help in Sapporo, as one of the best known is annual Snow Festival. Definitely you will have beautiful vacation in this city and will have amazing winter holiday if you visit it in the right time of the season. The city also have a lot of parks for traveling and tourism, which will give you perfect place for having rest after the hard day of skiing. One of the most known parks of the city is Odori Park, which is close to the center of the city, but also a highly visited are the Moerenuma and Shiroi Koibito Park.
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The largest port city in Japan – Yokohama is the administrative center of Kanagawa Prefecture. The population is nearly 4 million people, making it the second most number of inhabitants in the town land of the rising sun. Yokohama is located in the Bay of Tokyo , south of Tokyo in the Kant region of Iisland of Honshu. The city is rapidly developing as a major port in Japan in the late XIX century. Today, Yokohama is one of the largest ports in the country, along with Kobe, Osaka, Nagoya), Hakata, Tokyo and Chiba. The city gradually acquires strategic importance for Japan from external and internal business perspective. One after another at the beginning of XX century, representatives of large corporations found their companies in the rapidly growing industrial city. In 1923 a powerful earthquake raze much of the Japanese city. Data reported over 30,000 dead and 40,000 wounded. An interesting detail is that then the majority of local beliefs that natural disaster fell upon them because of the black magic done by Koreans. However irrational beliefs, the townspeople managed to quickly translate their Yokohama. Unfortunately, during the Second World War the city was destroyed again, this time by American bombers. This is not prevented the proud Japanese people to gather strength again and again to resurrect the city from the ashes. Proof of the intransigence of the residents of Yokohama is the fact that 20 years after the bombing – in 1972 officially opened modern Yokohama subway.
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