    About 40 of Japan’s 188 volcanoes are active, a number representing 10 percent of the world’s active volcanoes.
     From 1955 to 1973 Japan’s GDP grew at an annual average rate of 9 percent.
(from 1965 to 1970, at 12 percent a year). By 1968 Japan had become the third largest economy in the world.   Between 1955 and 1970, people were pouring into Japan’s six major cities (Tokyo, Yokohama, Osaka, Nagoya, Kyoto and Kobe) at an average rate of 1 million per year.
    Then, from 1975 to 1990, Japan’s economy grew at 4 percent, just half of its pre-1973 rate.    By 1989 the average stock was valued at 100 times the annual corporate earnings, an overvaluation of 400 to 500 percent.
    Services contribution to GDP has increased from 48 percent in 1966 to 55 percent in 1981, to 66 percent in 1999.     Japanese firms now produce more cars and consumer electronics outside Japan than in Japan.

    Japan produces more than 60 percent of its food.
    Between 1968 and 1994 the number of Japanese traveling abroad each year increased from 344,000 to 13.5 million.
    In 1995 Japan’s elderly outnumbered its youth for the first time in the country’s history.        Tokyo and other cities have thousands of homeless people, mostly middle-aged and older men.

1. Yasukini Shrine（靖国神社）; Imperial Palace (don't forget to take a photo under the famous niju-bashi 二重橋; Ginza (銀座), Tokyo's premier shopping district.

2. Shinjuku(新宿） Kabukicho street （歌舞伎町）..
3. Asakusa（浅草）. 4. Odaiba（台場）
5. Tokyo National Museum 東京国立博物館 in Ueno Park, and the new Edo Museum 江戸東京博物館 in Ryogoku. 6. Meiji-Jingu 明治神宮宮
7. Japanese food: Nato (fermented beans); Kaiten-Sushi ;Rice Burger ; The seaweed wrap sealed in a separate plastic layer was a patent invention that changed the way Japanese eat rice ball!; ubiquitous vending machines in Tokyoo - some of them offer hot coffee and juice.
8. Koishikawa Korakuen Teien 小石川後楽園, an edo garden in Iidabashi.
9. Chinatown in Yokohama (横浜)；Buddha ;Kamakura（鎌倉) ; Enoshima (江ノ島）; Mount Fuji.
10. Roppongi - the bars there are packed with foreigners at night.；Tsukiji fish market 築地市場, ；Ueno Zoo 上野動物園；Tokyo Sea Life Park 葛西臨海水族園；Shinagawa Acquarium しながわ水族館；sumo wrestling； Omotesando (表参道). Together with Harajuku and Shibuya；Akihabara (秋葉原) or Shinjuku. Or, if you have more time in Japan, set a few days for a trip to Osaka、Kyoto and Nara.