Destination
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Ibaraki
Travel plans
Southern Ibaraki: Science City, the Great Buddha & Mount Tsukuba — 2 Days
Real rockets at the JAXA space centre, a science museum and planetarium, lake-town eel and a Kasumigaura cruise, then Mount Tsukuba by cable car and the lift inside the Great Buddha
Kasama: A Pottery Town, a Great Inari Shrine & Hydrangea Temple — 2 Days
The thronged approach to a great Inari shrine, the town's soba and inari-zushi, a hands-on potter's wheel, and the hydrangea temple of Amabiki
Northern Ibaraki: Three-Great-Falls Country & the Ryujin Gorge — 2 Days
Honshu's longest pedestrian suspension bridge, one of Japan's three great waterfalls, an Okukuji hot spring, and the autumn gorge of Hananuki
Ibaraki by the Sea: Oarai's Wave-Washed Torii & the Kashima Shrine — 2 Days
A night on the Oarai shore, a dawn at the wave-washed sea torii, then the ancient cedar forest of Kashima Jingu and the iris waterways of Itako
First-Time Ibaraki: Mito's Plum Garden & the Great Coast — 2 Days
Mito's Three-Great-Gardens plum park and Edo academy, then the flower hills, fish market and ocean tanks of the Pacific coast
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