Tono lies 600 kilometer north of Tokyo, 3 hours by shinkansen or a 6 hour drive by car. It is surrounded by a ring of mountains climbing up to 1900 meters. Tono is known as “City of folklore”. Approx 32000 people are living in the city. From here to the cost side where the disaster happened it is 40 to 50 kilometers and 250 kilometers to Aomori the .last city of the island of Honshu in the north.One of the most famous Japanese writer comes from Tono, Kunio Yamagita (1875-1962). He wrote the…
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