Hokkaido stands as Japan’s northern frontier, a realm distinctly set apart from the rest of the nation not only by geography but also by its raw, untamed spirit.
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Nestled in the far southwestern corner of Japan lies an extraordinary archipelago that stretches towards the equatorial warmth, marking a realm where the immense power of the ocean shapes every facet of life.
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Nestled in the heart of the Japanese archipelago, the central island of Honshu captivates with its remarkable dichotomy of urban dynamism and pristine wilderness.
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Joanna Lumley’s Japan episode 3: The actress heads to the island of Shikoku hoping to gain a better understanding of Japanese Buddhism. She then takes a bullet train to another island – Kyushu – where she finds the Henn Na Hotel, the world’s first robot hotel. At Nagasaki, she visits Shiroyama Elementary school, one of the only buildings to survive
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Joanna Lumley’s Japan episode 2: The actress flies over Tokyo in a helicopter. The city was bombed extensively during the Second World War, so almost all of it is a symbol of the post-war economic boom that saw Japan become the world’s second largest economy. While in the capital, Joanna heads out to a nightclub to see a Japanese girl
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Joanna Lumley’s Japan episode 1: Joanna begins a 2,000-mile journey across Japan in Hokkaido, where she meets one of the most important animals in Japanese culture, the red-crowned crane. She arrives in Sapporo during the middle of the annual Snow Festival and meets members of the local indigenous community, before travelling into the Fukushima exclusion zone and taking a bullet
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Paul Hollywood Eats Japan episode 3: Paul Hollywood’s culinary journey across Japan concludes as he enters a noodle-eating challenge, dines with the largest-ever sumo and goes on an ‘eat-till-you-drop’ tour in Osaka. Paul Hollywood goes on a culinary and cultural road trip across Japan, exploring the extraordinary country through its food and unique eating experiences. Master baker
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Paul Hollywood Eats Japan episode 2: Paul Hollywood continues his culinary journey across Japan. He boards the bullet train, visits Okinawa and gets a cookery lesson from an atomic bomb survivor in Hiroshima. Paul Hollywood goes on a culinary and cultural road trip across Japan, exploring the extraordinary country through its food and unique eating experiences. Master
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Paul Hollywood Eats Japan episode 1: Paul Hollywood begins his culinary and cultural road trip across Japan in Tokyo, where he experiences solo dining and karaoke, and goes on a karting tour dressed as a ninja turtle. From Tokyo to Okinawa, Osaka and more, the British baking superstar eats his way across Japan on his first-ever visit to the culinary
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Around the World in 80 Treasures episode 4 – Japan to China: The ancient and the modern clash deliciously in Japan while the Terracotta army and the Great Wall of China boast the brilliance of ancient imperial China – Dan Cruickshank embarks on the fourth leg of his journey round the world to map man’s greatest creations in history.
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