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How to get to Tokyo?

An average direct flight takes 32h 05m from Honduras to Japan. The most
popular route is Tegucigalpa - Tokyo and the average flight time is 33h 25m.

Música
Japan has a rich musical culture comprising a varied palette of traditional
styles as well as a diverse range of exported styles including pop, rock,
electro, punk, folk, metal, reggae, salsa, and tango as well as country music
and hip hop.
Traditional Japanese music is known as hōgaku ( 邦 楽 ), while the word
ongaku (音 楽) designates music in general. The modern name J-Music refers
to certain branches of Japanese music with Western touches.
Zakuro is a show of traditional Japanese music. World of authentic Japanese
instruments, drums Koto, Shamisen, Shakuhachi and Taiko.

Historical monuments in Tokyo


 Sensô-ji Temple (645, Tokyo)
There are thousands of Buddhist temples throughout Japan, so choosing only
one of them is impossible, but on our list we have chosen the Senso-ji temple
for its easy accessibility and for being located in a very attractive enclave, in
the Asakusa neighborhood of Tokyo.
 Fushimi Inari Taisha (711, Kyoto)
"Temple of the 10,000 torii" is one of the most famous places in Japan. It is a
shinto shrine, a place for the worship of shintoism. This is the indigenous
religion of the Japanese, of which symbols have been found in the earliest
stages of human settlements.
 Tomb and statue of Minamoto no Yoritomo (1199, Kamakura)
the tomb and statue of Minamoto no Yoritomo, who was the first shôgun in
history, that is, the first soldier to gain the power to rule the whole country.
The dictatorial system that began this character was of great transcendence
and would last no less than eight centuries!
 Odawara Castle and surroundings (1447, Odawara)
Titanic castle was in possession of different clans, among which stands out the
Hôjô clan, important family that held the power and that was able to resist the
envites of no less than Uesugi Kenshin and Takeda Shingen, two prestigious
lords of the Sengoku period. He would later suffer the historic siege of
Odawara by the hand of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, eventually succumbing after
three months of heroic defense.
 Osaka Castle and statue of Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1598, Osaka)
Osaka was a key stronghold in the era of the warring countries (Sengoku
jidai), a period of major military friction in the 14th and 15th centuries. If
there is an impressive building in the city it is certainly Osaka Castle, built by
the extraordinary samurai leader Toyotomi Hideyoshi.
 Edo Tokyo Museum (1590-1965, Tokyo)
The Edo era (1600-1968) is the period in which the capital of Japan was Edo
(later known as Tokyo), run by the Tokugawa family. The importance of this
period is essential for Japanese culture and art, as it was a time when Japan
had almost complete isolation from the rest of the world, thus originating
disciplines such as ukiyoe engravings, kabuki theatre or haiku poetry.
 Nikkô Tôshô-gu (1636, Nikkô)
The most important shogun in Japanese history. Ieyasu established the longest
known stage of peace (two and a half centuries) and completed the very
complicated process of unification already begun by Oda Nobunaga and
Toyotomi Hideyoshi.
 Gassho-zukuri of Ogimachi (1800, Shirakawa-go)
Ogimachi is one of the most beautiful villages in Japan, but it also has the
characteristic of conserving many buildings with two centuries of antiquity.
The village of Shirakawa-go and Gokayama are UNESCO World Heritage
Sites
 Goryôkaku Fort (Hakodate, 1855)
The scene of the last battle in the Boshin war is set in Hakodate, on the
northern island of Hokkaido. It is a unique, star-shaped fortress built to
withstand the onslaught of the Western powers on the last throes of the
samurai regime.
 Akan Ainu Kotan (1934)
The Ainu are an indigenous tribe in northern Japan, and until just a century
ago they had some autonomy. Akan Ainu Kotan Park preserves the Ainu
culture, its symbols and its ecological way of life as a form of respect and
consideration for the ancestors of this region.

Religion
Japan has 2 major religions, Shintoism and Buddhism. Although many people
claim to have no special belief. Most participate in both Shinto and Buddhist
customs and rituals.
Shintoist religion is originally from Japan. People believed that there were
spiritual forces in nature, in trees or in mountains, in the sea or in the wind.
With the development of Shintoism, heroes and other revered characters were
included in the spiritual. Before the first shrines were built, people went to
natural places to offer worship to the spiritual.
Buddhism was born in India and introduced in Japan around the middle of the
6th century, There are several sects of Buddhism. Buddhist temples contain
religious statues and visitors to temples often burn incense in front of statues.
Many families have Buddhist altars where ancestors are worshipped

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