Detail InformationEdit Marugame Castle (Marugame-jō), also known as Kameyama Castle and Horai Castle, is a hirayamashiro (castle situated on a hill surrounded by a plain) located in Marugame, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan. The first fortifications built on the site that would later become Marugame castle were erected by the Nara clan led by Nara Motoyasu, who […]
Takayama (, Takayama-shi) is a city located in Gifu, Japan. As of July, 2011 the city has an estimated population of 92,369. The total area is 2,177.67 km2 (840.80 sq mi). Takayama was settled as far back as the Jmon period. Takayama is best known for its inhabitants’ expertise in carpentry. It is believed carpenters […]
Heian-kyō (平安京, literally “tranquility and peace capital”), was one of several former names for the city now known as Kyoto. It was the capital of Japan for over one thousand years, from 794 to 1868 with an interruption in 1180. Emperor Kammu established it as the capital in 794, moving the Imperial Court there from […]
Detail InformationEdit San’en-zan Zōjō-ji (三縁山増上寺, San’en-zan Zōjō-ji) is a Buddhist temple in the Shiba neighborhood of Minato, Tokyo, Japan. It is the Great Main Temple of the Chinzai sect of the Shingon school. The main image is of Amida Buddha. The founder of Zōjō-ji was Yūyo Shōsō (酉誉聖聡). Shūei (宗叡, 809-884), a disciple of Kūkai, […]
Hirado (平戸市, Hirado-shi) is a city in Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan. The part historically named Hirado is located on the island of the same name. With recent mergers, the city’s boundaries have expanded, and Hirado now occupies parts of the main island of Kyūshū. The components are connected by the Hirado Bridge. Hirado had been a […]
Matsudo is a city located in northern Chiba Prefecture, Japan. As of February 2011, the city had an estimated population of 484,578 and a population density of 7900 persons per Square kilometer. The total area was 61.33 Square kilometers. Matsudo is located in the far northwestern corner of Chiba Prefecture, bordered by the Edogawa River […]
Detail InformationEdit Tamarindito is an archaeological site of the Maya civilization located along an escarpment in the Petén department of Guatemala. The city was the capital of the Petexbatún region of the southwestern Petén during the Early Classic period but was displaced by the newly founded conquest state of Dos Pilas. Tamarindito is situated on […]
Detail InformationEdit Itzan is a Maya archaeological site located in the municipality of La Libertad in the Petén Department of Guatemala. Various small structures at the site were destroyed in the 1980s during oil exploration activities by Sonpetrol and Basic Resources Ltd, prompting rescue excavations by archaeologists. In spite of its small size, the site […]
Solola is a city in Guatemala. It is the capital of the department of Solola and the administrative seat of Solola municipality.The name is a hispanicized form of its pre-Columbian name, one spelling variant of which is T’zolojy’a.The urban center has about 14,000 people, but the municipality also includes four village communities–Los Encuentros, El Tablon, […]
Numazu is a city located in eastern Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. As of 2009, the city has an estimated population of 205,636 and a population density of 1,100 persons per Square kilometer. The total area was 187.11 Square kilometers. Numazu is at the northern end of the Izu Peninsula, which is a leisure destination known for […]