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Mt. Fudekage is 313 meters high and part of the Seto Inland Sea National Park. Great views of Seto Inland Sea and Shikoku from Mihara, Hiroshima.
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From JR Mihara Station, there's a local bus that goes up to Mt. Fudekage taking 7 min. Otherwise, it's a 50-min. hike from JR Sunami Station (JR Kure Line).
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Looking east.
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View of Seto Inland Sea from Mt. Fudekage in Mihara, Hiroshima.
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View of Seto Inland Sea from Mt. Fudekage in Mihara, Hiroshima. you can see Kosagi in the foreground, Sagi, and Hoso islands. In the distance on the right is Innoshima and part of the Shimanami Kaido bridge connecting Shikoku (Imabari) and Hiroshima.
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Mt. Fudekage has a lookout deck for great views.
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View of Seto Inland Sea from Mt. Fudekage in Mihara, Hiroshima.
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View of Seto Inland Sea from Mt. Fudekage in Mihara, Hiroshima.
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View of central Mihara (area around Mihara Station) from Mt. Fudekage in Mihara, Hiroshima.
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View of central Mihara (area around Mihara Station) from Mt. Fudekage in Mihara, Hiroshima.
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JR Sunami Station (JR Kure Line) is the closest to Mt. Fudekage. Then it's a 50-min. hike up. 須波駅
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Biwako Aika (Lake Biwa Elegy) Monument and memorial for songwriter Okuno Yashio who was from Katata. Details about the song here. 琵琶湖哀歌の歌碑 堅田
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Biwako Aika 琵琶湖哀歌 (Lake Biwa Elegy) is a mournful song dedicated to the eight college rowers from Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture and three rowers from Kyoto who died while practicing in waters off Takashima-cho, Haginohama beach when struck by st
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The accident occurred on April 6, 1941. The boys from Kanazawa were students at the No. 4 High School 第四高等学校 which today is Kanazawa University. The sad incident spurred Okuno to create this song.
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Nicknamed Miraikan, The National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation is a science and technology museum in the Odaiba area in Koto, Tokyo. US President Barack Obama visited here on April 24, 2014.
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The museum director is Japanese astronaut Mamoru Mohri, so there are a good number of space-related exhibits.
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A long line of people wait to enter the museum in Sept. 2013 on the last day of the Thunderbirds exhibition. This is before the museum's opening time.
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Inside Miraikan at ticket vending machines.
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Parker and Lady Penelope. The puppets are about as tall as the length between your fingertips and elbow.
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Lady Penelope
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Lady Penelope undressed (!), but headless.
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Thunderbird 1
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The background paper moved to create the illusion of flight.
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Thunderbird 2
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Mole
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Thunderbird 3
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Thunderbird 4
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Thunderbird 5
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Lady Penelope's pink Rolls Royce
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Plastic model of Thunderbird 1
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Plastic model of Thunderbird 2
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Plastic model of Mole
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Plastic model of Thunderbird 4
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Thunderbird 2 show
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Model of the island base and home.
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Planetarium
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Shinkai deep sea explorer
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Rocket engine
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Skeleton
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Mockup of a module of the ISS (International Space Station)
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Inside the ISS module
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Living quarters inside ISS module
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Toilet inside ISS module
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ISS module mockup
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The ISS module mockup was autographed by many astronauts like Buzz Aldrin. Apparently they all visited Miraikan.
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Koichi Wakata
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Noguchi
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Takao Doi
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The nearby staircase was also had these panels showing everyone who went into space over the years. Including the first space dog in 1957.
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1969 was when man first landed on the moon.
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1985 was when Ellison Onizuka from Hawaii first went into space.
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Too bad there will never be an autograph by Ellison Onizuka.
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Cherry blossoms went into space.
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Japan's first female astronaut, Chiaki Doi.
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Koichi Wakata
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Naoko Yamazaki
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Large lobby with a globe.
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Along the Aikawa River are koinobori carp streamers and cherry blossoms which come out in early April. 相川
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Aikawa River and koinobori streamers in Tarui, Gifu. 相川
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One place where we can walk across the river.
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Cherry blossoms abound on both riverbanks.
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In early May.
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