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Card 787 of 9982026-08-29 issue

Observed arrival · 2026-08-29

Silent Rural Japan Maps the Quiet Side of the Country

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A multilingual travel guide for finding quiet Japanese towns, valleys, gardens, islands, and mountain routes through map-based 4K walking videos.

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The guide combines a location-and-theme index with route-level entries, allowing visitors to move from categories such as islands or old townscapes to named walks and their associated prefectures. Its current index spans 56 videos across six prefectures, including several Nakasendo routes, Shikoku landscapes, and northern island journeys. Some Rishiri and Rebun listings are marked as coming soon, so the catalog also records material that appears to be in the process of being published.

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