Matakuliah
Tahun
Versi
: N0572/Image of Japan
: 2006
: versi revisi
Pertemuan ke 12
Daerah Kantou
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Learning Outcomes
Pada akhir pertemuan ini, diharapkan mahasiswa
akan mampu :
• Menarik kesimpulan tentang kondisi
budaya dan letak geografis di daerah
Tohoku melalui pref. Akita, Yamagata,
Miyagi dan Fukushima
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Tohoku
August in Tohoku
During the first week of August, a
few of the Japan's major summer
festivals are held in the Tohoku
region in northern Japan (Aomori,
Akita, Iwate, Yamagata, Miyagi, and
Fukushima Prefectures).
Besides the Big Three Tohoku
festivals--the Aomori Nebuta
MatsuriAkita Kanto Matsuri, and
Sendai Tanabata Matsuri--the
Hirosaki Neputa Matsuri and
Yamagata Hanagasa Matsuri are
also major festivals well worth
seeing.
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Tohoku
The Tohoku (lit. "North East") Region consists
of six prefectures in the north of Japan's largest
island Honshu. The Tohoku region is well
known for its countryside, mountains, lakes,
high quality rice and rough winters.
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Tohoku
• Tōhoku Shinkansen (東北新幹線) is a
high-speed rail line, connecting Tokyo with
Hachinohe in Aomori Prefecture for a total
length of 593 km, Japan's longest
Shinkansen line. It runs through the more
sparsely populated Tōhoku Region of
Japan's main island Honshu. It has two
spur lines, Yamagata Shinkansen and
Akita Shinkansen, not shown on the map.
The line is operated by East Japan
Railway Company.
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Tohoku
extension from Hachinohe to Aomori is under
construction and is scheduled for completion
around 2010. From Aomori, construction is
underway to continue the line under the name
Hokkaido Shinkansen, passing through the
world's longest railway tunnel, the Seikan
Tunnel to Shin-Hakodate on Hokkaido, and
eventually all the way to Sapporo.
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Tohoku
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Tohoku
• Tohoku Shinkansen adalah jaringan baru
yang kontroersial, kitra-kira penyebabnya
apa, silakan diskusikan
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