Akita

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In little more than 3 hours you can get here from Tokyo on the Akita shinkansen. They say that it is here where there is better Japan rice and its most beautiful women. The city is also well known because they have that in one of its churches appeared the Virgin Mary a 12 June 1973 to Sister Agnes Sasagawa when he prayed at the convent.

The blind sister is called “Agnes” which means lamb. She was healed of deafness, which is verified to have no medical explanation. This miracle was a sign of the authenticity of the visits of the Virgin. Since then, the statue was placed in the Church is called “Fatima for East”. Read the rest of this entry »

Beppu

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Beppu is known as the “spa city”, and that it has more than 110 public establishments. Account with more than 130,000 kiloliters of thermal water per year from the interior of the Earth (enough to fill 3,600 pools of 25 m in length), mostly from 9 sources known as “the 9 Hells of Beppu”. Since antiquity this has been the reason for which many people attended Beppu to benefit from the baths taken with this type of water.

In 1950 she was appointed by the Japanese Government as a spa town. Its waters are rich in sulphides, salt, acids and aluminium. Their main centres are: Beppu, Kankaiji, Kannawa, Myoban, and hour. Each year attracts more than 3.5 million visitors to take advantage of the medicinal qualities and therapeutic of water, with such distinctive names such as: “hell tromba” or “blood Lake”. The city is located in a Bay surrounded by bamboo forests and mountains which comes from the water of strange colors: blood-red (underwater oxidation), verduzco, caramel color. Read the rest of this entry »