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Google Maps Easter Egg Lets You Street-View Famous Open-Air Hot Springs Bath
On 15 January, a tweet emerged revealing a secret Google Maps Street View available nestled deep in a valley in Nagano Prefecture. The tweet simply read “Open-air bath on full display in Street...
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Google Maps Offers Rare Look Inside Abandoned Fukushima Town
Google Japan has announced that it is now possible for Google Maps users to access street view images of Namie, a coastal town in Fukushima that was severely affected by the March 11, 2011 earthquake...
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Pigeon people flock to Google Street View in Tokyo
If you happen to be looking for directions around Mitaka Station in Musashino, Tokyo you might be in for an eerie surprise. As Google’s Street View camera strapped to a guy’s back passed through the...
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Google Street View captures view from top of Mt. Fuji, negates only reason to...
There’s a saying in Japan about Mt. Fuji that goes to the tune of, “You ought to climb it once, but only a fool would climb it twice.” That’s because, as yours truly learned just last weekend,...
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Japan dominates the list of most visited Google Street View locations in Asia
Thanks to the internet and Google Street View, you can see the world from the comforts of your own home. Eat a turkey leg while touring the Palace of Versailles or walk through the Taipei Train...
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Enjoy the beauty of Angkor in your underpants thanks again to Google Street View
It seems Google Maps and Google Street View is truly unending in their quest to walk around and take panoramic photos of some of the Earth’s most beautiful locations. So far we’ve witnessed the eerie...
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【TBT】Pigeon people flock to Google Street View in Tokyo
If you happen to be looking for directions around Mitaka Station in Musashino, Tokyo you might be in for an eerie surprise. As Google’s Street View camera strapped to a guy’s back passed through the...
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Google’s Street View cameras are taking spooky selfies in museums around the...
It turns out that there are a surprising number of mirrors in museums, so when Google unleashed its Street View cameras to catalog the insides of museums around the world, more than a few of them...
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Japan’s “Underground Temple” now up for virtual touring in Google Street View
Running underneath Kasukabe City, Saitama Prefecture, lies the Metropolitan Area Outer Underground Discharge Channel – a sprawling network of waterways as long as its name. Its 6.3 kilometers (3.9...
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Japanese town’s Cat Street View lets you virtually tour its backstreets, meet...
It’s an amazing age we live in, where you can fire up Google Street View and virtually walk the boulevards of many of the world’s cities. But it turns out Google Street View has a bit of a rival in...
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Google Street View now lets you tour the glowing samurai, dragons of the...
Just about every community in Japan puts on a local festival in the summer, but few are as spectacular as Aomori City’s Nebuta Matsuri. For almost a solid week, gigantic floats topped by lanterns...
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Google’s Street View takes privacy to a whole new level in Japan【Photos】
Since 2001, the Google Street View truck has been rolling through neighborhoods all over the world, taking photos of our towns and city streets in order add to its parent company’s enormous library of...
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Japan’s Cat Street View is back with another virtual meet-and-greet with...
Part navigation tool, part feline photo safari, and entirely adorable. Roughly a year ago, the city of Onomichi, in Hiroshima Prefecture, introduced a new way to navigate one of its neighborhoods: the...
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Google Maps Offers Rare Look Inside Abandoned Fukushima Town
Google Japan has announced that it is now possible for Google Maps users to access street view images of Namie, a coastal town in Fukushima that was severely affected by the March 11, 2011 earthquake...
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Google Street View captures hilarious before-and-after of person cycling into...
Poor cyclist’s embarrassing tumble caught on camera. While laughing at someone else’s misfortune is a guilty pleasure, anyone who has cycled in Japan can relate to the constant danger of collisions,...
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Tour Akita Prefecture from the back of an Akita Inu Dog with Google’s...
The adorable breed of dogs introduces the Internet to its home in Japan’s northern Akita Prefecture. Google’s Street View is a technological marvel that allows us to navigate, or even virtually...
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