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		simonw on Dec 4, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Recommendations for Japan Travel Can't resist taking this opportunity to link to my favourite ever piece of travel writing, about Huis ten Bosch: the enormous theme park near Nagasaki where the theme of the park is Holland. https://spikejapan.wordpress.com/2011/01/23/huis-ten-bosch-o... Seriously: read the whole thing. There's a bit where bankers take investing advice from a psychic ceramic toad. It's wonderful. When we visited Japan we made a special trip there and it was every bit as amazing as this article makes it out to be.

wyclif on Dec 4, 2022 [–]

There's also "Amerikamura" (America Town) in Osaka: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amerikamura

m4rtink on Dec 5, 2022 | [–]

And a British one:

https://www.nijinosato.com/

And also a Hello Kitty/Sanrio one:

https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g1121559-d1745...

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