A "slow travel" trip with the "Seishun 18 kippu" ticket from Tokyo to Atami, to Nagoya, to Obama, to Kyoto and back to Tokyo in April 2014. The Seishun Juhachi Kippu, meaning something like "Youthful 18 Ticket", is a seasonally available railway ticket, w

Pagoda at Myouchuuji monastery of esoteric Buddhism.
Obama city is a city on the Japan sea and has become quite famous during the US elections when Obama was elected president of the US, as they campaigned for him. The city has many Buddhist temples as it is on the route that Buddhism followed on its way to Japan.

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Pagoda at Myouchuuji monastery of esoteric Buddhism.<br />
Obama city is a city on the Japan sea and has become quite famous during the US elections when Obama was elected president of the US, as they campaigned for him. The city has many Buddhist temples as it is on the route that Buddhism followed on its way to Japan.