Japan

Japan is an island country consisting of 7,000 small islands and four large ones, called Honshu, Hokkaido, Kyushu and Shikoku. These four islands constitute 97 per cent of the country’s total land area. The island country covers an area of 377,915 square kilometres. It lies in Asia, between the Pacific Ocean and Sea of Japan. Japan’s capital city is Tokyo, with a population of 13,370,198, while the entire country has a population of 126,958,000. 98.5 per cent of the population consists of ethnic Japanese. Japan has half the population of the United States of America. Its land area is similar to that of the state of California.

73 per cent of the country is covered by forests and mountains. The tallest mountain, Mount Fuji, reaches 3,776 metres high. Fuji-Q Highland amusement park is located just an hour from Mount Fuji. In collaboration with our partner GET YOUR GUIDE, we have two offers for our fellow travellers, namely a one-day pass ticket and an afternoon pass ticket for the amusement park. The Fuji-Q Highland is an amusement park, located in Fujiyoshida, Yamanashi. It was founded by the company Fuji Kyuko Co. on 2 March 1968.

Japan is the juncture of four tectonic plates, the North American plate, the Eurasian plate, the Pacific plate and the Philippine Sea plate, resulting in approximately 1,500 earthquakes per year. 108 active volcanoes have been listed in the country. Japan’s climate has cold winters in the north, particularly in the northern part of Honshu and in Hokkaido, and hot summers that bring six weeks of rain, which stops around mid-summer. The Tone is the country’s longest river with 322 kilometres, covering a surface of 16,840 square kilometres. It drains into the Pacific Ocean near the Inubo peninsula and the city of Choshi in Chiba prefecture. Seven per cent of the country is interlaced by water sources, such as hot springs, lakes and rivers. Japan has native plants and fruit, such as the Japanese cherry and persimmon, native fish, such as the koi fish, native fowl, such as the Japanese green pheasant, and other native wildlife, such as the Japanese macaque, the Japanese red fox, the Japanese raccoon dog and the Japanese spitz dog breed – Shiba Inu.