This video contains the major tourist attractions of my Japan Kansai trips between 10th-16th December, 2009.
First time visiting Japan gave me a new insight of this mysterious culture, a culture similar to my own yet very different and exotic. There was an old Chinese saying which goes like this ; 讀萬卷書，行萬里路 Read ten thousand books, walk ten thousand miles. The idea is that simply reading from text book is not enough learning, untill you physically travel and experience it with your own presence, see with your own eyes, touch with your own sense, etc, because these experiences cannot be taught by any parties or from any materials. Visiting Japan is a worth while experience for me.
Kansai is a urbanized region and is a major industrial area of Japan, Osaka and Kobe are major industrial ports but both city are also very commercialized, the city lay out is not centralized but very wide-spread, not a lot of tall buildings as the geographic location of Japan been sitting right on the Eurasia-Pacific tectonic plate, this means Japan is prone to experience constant earthquake, (Kobe was hard hit in 1995). Kansai’s natural environment was very well preserved, despite been an major industrial area.
Kyoto, one of the oldest city in Japan, also known as the capital city during the Tokogawa shogunate, until the regime was overthrown in the Meiji Restoration in 1868 and the capital was moved to Edo, which was to become Tokyo of today. Kyoto was once a cultural and political centre of the Japanese civilization, it was also an important religious centre, Buddhist temple are predominate religion in this city.
Cities which I had visited in this video; Tokyo, Osaka, Kobe, and Wakayama.
Background music:Joe Hisaishi-One Summer Day
Recorded with Panasonic DMC-TS1 camera
Editing software; Sony Vegas Pro.9
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