Japanese Museum of Rocks That Look Like Human Faces

In Chichibu, there is a museum of rocks where you won’t learn anything about geology. Though, you will enjoy spending some pleasant hours marveling at bizarre exhibits such as the Elvis Presley rock, the Boris Yeltsin rock, the Jesus rock, the Nemo rock and the Donkey Kong rock. The museum lies about two hours northwest of Tokyo, also called “Chinsekikan” means “hall of curious rocks”. The museum contains more than 1700 specimens, and out of 900 are resemble human faces.

 Moreover, these unaltered rocks naturally resemble celebrities, religious figures, movie characters, and more. The avid collector, Shozo Hayama took the step to collect rocks, spent 50 years collecting naturally eroded rocks that looked like human faces. Although, Shozo Hayama no more alive and died in 2010 and his wife running museum affairs.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Aoshima, The Cat Island

Aoshima island, is famous as “Cat Island”, actually a small island, where there are expressively more feline residents than people and inhabited by 15 people and hundreds of cats. Aoshima is incorporated into Ozu City, Ehime Prefecture, is a small, unpretentious island in the Seto Inland Sea of Japan. However, the 0.5 km²island does have one unique claim to fame–it’s known as a paradise for cats and cat lovers. However, island does have one unique claim to fame–it’s known as a paradise for cats and cat lovers. The island wasn’t always so deserted, nor was it recognized as being a “cat paradise.” Cat Island is home to over 100 cats of all different breeds, which can be found lounging around and acting generally lazy in true feline fashion.

That’s pretty impressive, considering the island itself has only 17 permanent human residents, who range in age from their 50s-80s and either make their living through fishing or receive a pension. One nurse is stationed full-time on the island, but residents must board a ferry to Nagahama Port (near JR Iyonagahama Station) in Ozu City to do all of their shopping. The tourist’s likes to play with cats, petting and taking photos. It is impossible to see so many cats in one place, different breed’s just fickle nature of cats. The Residents of Hyogo Prefecture first migrated to Aoshima about 400 years ago to fish the huge numbers of sardines in the surrounding waters. The cats were primarily introduced to the island to prevent mice from chewing through fishing nets.

The island experienced a peak population of 798 in 1955, but the number of people dwindled just as the population of cats multiplied. Aoshima has experienced an unprecedented influx of tourists, leaving the local residents baffled and unprepared to deal with the flood of people streaming. The sleepy island wasn’t always so deserted, experienced a peak population of 798 in 1955, but the number of people dwindled just as the population of cats multiplied. Few Communities are trying to boost the local economy drawing fine line between promoting exchange with people from other prefectures and keeping their original quite lifestyle. So far, the island is not presently equipped to handle more than a handful of people in this modern age–there are no restaurants, no hotels, no cars, almost no bikes, and not even a single vending machine to be found! Furthermore, because the island is so small, many tourists inadvertently end up wandering onto the residents’ private properties.

Japan’s First Ever Glass Travel Train

Japan is introducing First Glass Travel train that has Windows instead of walls, giving passengers remarkable view of its volcanic landscape. The country has majestic scenery in the world, offering a new experience to its passengers. The modern design by Ichibansen, that carriage are same to glass tubes, now rail passengers will able to see in all its glory mainly thanks to a train that has big windows instead of walls. In addition, driver’s room is also glass; enable the passengers to see the inner working of train travel. Moreover, there are two carriages to the glass train, the first carriage is dedicated to offering majestic viewpoints, and however the second houses a French restaurant. The enthusiast’s passengers will have unhindered views of Japan’s volcanic landscape. There are 45 seats available with the options of meal (costs £100) and without meal (£40) on the Echigo Tokimeki Resort Setsugekka. 

Moreover, Switzerland and Canada are famous for operating trains with similar panoramic carriages. The passengers start the trip through a scenic wonderland of dramatic and diverse wilderness, taking the Rocky Mountaineer train from Vancouver. The tourist can relish gazing through ceiling windows that shows the fast flowing rivers and avalanche-threatened passes. The passengers are advised to keep a lookout for a jaw-dropping range of wildlife on the trip, also includes a visit to Yoho National Park and the Columbia Icefields. 

Likewise, Switzerland's Glacier Express is normally labelled as the slowest fast train in the world as it takes just under 8 hours to travel approximately 180 miles between St Moritz and Zermatt and vice versa. The mountain railway journey also runs from Piz Bernina to the Matterhorn, crosses 291 bridges, 91 tunnels and Rhone and the Rhine. This is probably one of best tail trip in the world, especially journey over the Bernina Pass, with the glacier and mountain scenery made accessible by extraordinary feats of railway engineering.

Cat Island Japan

An army of cats rules the remote island curling up in abandoned houses or strutting about in a fishing village that is overrun with felines outnumbering humans 6 to 1. Tashirojima is a small island in Ishinomaki, Miyagi, Japan, lies in the Pacific Ocean off the Oshika Peninsula, to the west of Ajishima. This is also known as “Cat Island” has long been thought by the locals to represent luck and good fortune. The island is also known as Manga Island, as Shotaro Ishinomori built manga-related buildings on the island, resembling a cat. If you take care of them and feed well, and treated like kings or as pets will bring wealth and good fortune.  So, it is not an accident that the cats that inhabit have come to be the island's primary residents and most are feral because keeping them as "pets" is generally considered inappropriate; they’re well-fed and cared-for. In 2012, the BBC in the United Kingdom, presented a short television series called Pets “Wild at Heart”, which features the behaviors of pets, including the cats on the island.

Moreover, in the last 60 years or so, the human population of island has significantly decreased from few hundreds to thousands. The cat population is now larger than the human population on the island. The number of inhabitants has shunned the island as it became dominated by felines. The populations which have left have become more protective of the cats. Moreover another interesting that, dogs are not allowed here just to protect cat’s well beings and apparently any dog foolish enough to venture onto an island full of feral cats. Due to cats, the island has become a popular attraction for curious travelers.In 2011, the famous Tohoku tsunami has damage the island, but feline population has become survived and intact and several believe, the island wasn’t destroyed due to cats luck.

In the Period of Edo in Japan, the much of island raised silk worms for their textile needs and they use to kept cats to chase the mice away from their precious silk worms in order to keep the mouse population down because mice are a natural predator of silkworms. Moreover there’s a small shrine known as Neko-jinja in the middle of island. Hence, there are at least 10 cat shrines in Miyagi Prefecture and are also 51 stone monuments in the shape of cats, which is a strangely high number, compared to the other prefectures. Therefore, these shrines and monuments are concentrated in the southern area of the island, overlapping with the regions where silkworms were raised. As a result, the cat lovers come to the island and package tours exactly to "look for Jack" are now available. Thus, Cat photographs contests and exhibitions are now held on the island.

The Bubbling Hells of Beppu, Japan

Southern Japan city of Beppu is set on a steaming collection of geothermal hotspots. Here, you can bathe in a mineral-rich spring, get buried up to your neck in warm sand, or you can sink into a mud bath. You can also visit Chinoike Jigoku, the blood-red pond from hell. It is translated as "Bloody Hell Pond," Chinoike Jigoku is one of the eight "Hells of Beppu", where "hell" equals "touristy hot spring meant for viewing, not bathing." 

Japan is figuratively soaking in hot-spring spas, though no place in the country gushes more thermal waters than Beppu, on Kyushu’s eastern coast. This is spewing sufficient water to fill 3,600 swimming pools daily and encompassing the world’s second-largest hot springs after Yellowstone United States.  Moreover, Beppu has long been one of Japan’s famous spa resorts, with more than 11 million people visiting the city’s 80 public bathhouses annually. 

However, every hell has a theme. Moreover Shaven Monk's Head Hell is a pool of simmering mud, so this is easily called the belching bubbles look like bald guys' noggins. Furthermore, sea Hell is a vivid fake turquoise, while murky Demon Mountain Hell has been populated with a horde of disconsolate crocodiles. None of it makes considerably sense, but the swirls of steam that billow from for each pond make for dramatic photographs. Therefore, Beppu has witnessed a spa revolution the past few years that has replaced outdated, hangar-like bathhouses with new, sophisticated spas, many constructed of soothing natural woods and surrounded by greenery

So, you can't go for a dip in any of the hells in accordance with their name, they are too hot since but you can eat eggs, vegetables, and pudding that have been cooked in the springs. Moreover, on your way out, please don't forget to pick up some relaxing skincare products made from the crimson sludge of Bloody Hell Pond. But while Beppu has reinvented itself in a bid to attract Japan’s younger generation, it still remains wildly popular with older vacationers, and many of its attractions are so endearingly old-fashioned – if not downright hokey.