Boat ride back to my hotel
There's a special canal ride back to where I am staying.
Pokemon manhole cover
Noboribetsu has the Pokemon manhole cover.
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It certainly looks like the Dutch traders had an influence on the architecture. An interesting Asian/Euro fusion.
ReplyDeleteThe Dutch were the only contact with the west for almost 350 years, so they did. Huis Ten Bosch is a more modern reproduction and Google had trouble identifying which country they were taken in.
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