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Ibaraki

Natural beauty from Tsukuba Geopark to Mito's Kairaku-en

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  1. Hiking up Mt. Tsukuba
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    Hiking up Mt. Tsukuba

    Tsukuba
  2. Top 10 in Ibaraki
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    Top 10 in Ibaraki

    Tsukuba
  3. Hitachi Seaside Park
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    Hitachi Seaside Park

    Culture
  4. Fukuroda Falls
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    Fukuroda Falls

    Activity
  5. Mito's Plum Blossom Festival
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    Mito's Plum Blossom Festival

    Mito
  6. Ami Premium Outlet
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    Ami Premium Outlet

    Shopping
  7. Ferry Ride from Tokyo to Hokkaido
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    Ferry Ride from Tokyo to Hokkaido

    Transportation
  8. Ushiku Daibutsu
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    Ushiku Daibutsu

    Culture
  9. JAXA Space Center in Tsukuba
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    JAXA Space Center in Tsukuba

    Tsukuba
  10. Mt. Tsukuba Area Geopark
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    Mt. Tsukuba Area Geopark

    Tsukuba
  1. Appreciating Mito City
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    Appreciating Mito City

    Mito
  2. Inaba Shuzo
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    Inaba Shuzo

    Tsukuba
  3. Kagetsurou
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    Kagetsurou

    Food
  4. Tsukuba's Gourmet Handmade Soba
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    Tsukuba's Gourmet Handmade Soba

    Tsukuba
  5. Tsuchiura’s Kura Storehouses
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    Tsuchiura’s Kura Storehouses

    Culture
  6. Tsuchiura City’s “Turtle Castle”
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    Tsuchiura City’s “Turtle Castle”

    Culture
  7. Sakasai Castle
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    Sakasai Castle

    Culture
  8. Ushiku Daibutsu
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    Ushiku Daibutsu

    Culture
  9. Goroko no Yu Hot Spring
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    Goroko no Yu Hot Spring

    Beauty & Spa
  10. Amabiki Kannon Temple
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    Amabiki Kannon Temple

    Culture

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About Ibaraki

Okinawa Nagasaki Fukuoka Saga Kumamoto Kagoshima Miyazaki Oita Ehime Kochi Tokushima Kagawa Yamaguchi Hiroshima Okayama Tottori Shimane Hyogo Kyoto Osaka Wakayama Nara Shiga Mie Fukui Ishikawa Toyama Gifu Aichi Nagano Shizuoka Niigata Yamanashi Kanagawa Tokyo Saitama Gunma Tochigi Chiba Ibaraki Fukushima Miyagi Yamagata Iwate Akita Aomori Hokkaido
Region Kanto
Island Honshu
Capital Mito
Population 2,969,770
Area 6,096.93 sq. km

Easily accessible from Tokyo by the Tsukuba Express, Ibaraki is known historically for being the home of the Mito branch of the Tokugawa clan during the Edo Period, including the famous daimyo Tokugawa Mitsukuni, or “Mito Komon,” the subject of a popular long-running TV series in Japan.

The two most popular tourist destinations in Ibaraki are the majestic Fukuroda Falls (which can spectacularly freeze over in the winter), as well as Kairaku-en, one of the Three Great Gardens of Japan.

Other places of note include the beaches on the coast, Hitachi Seaside Park and its pretty flower fields, and the Kashima Jingu shrine.

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