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ULTIMATELY, the trouble with Choshi and the peninsula it lies upon, is that it is too big. I am used to a Japan that I can walk around, a place navigable on foot. Birdwatchers who have visited here claim you need your own car to really get around. I have never driven a car in Japan but it seems easy to do if you have an international drivers license. All along the Pacific coast of Honshu and Hokkaido island to the north, can be found charming little concrete fishing towns like Choshi, many of them hard to reach by public transportation. These were the places flattened by the tsunami of 2011, which struck only a few months after my photographic visit. Choshi seems to have survived the 2011 tsunami relatively unscathed, according to mayor Jun Mokudai. It was nonetheless shaken hard by the M9.0 earthquake on March 11, 2011, and the M7.7 aftershock which hit about 30 minutes later. A few days afterward there was an aftershock which seemed to be centered right underneath the long headland I had walked only 2.5 months earlier! Scary stuff indeed. If that is not enough to shock you, then read this: radioactive fish have been found in Choshi port!
OTHER SITES ABOUT CHOSHI FROM JAPAN!
大きな地図で見る
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