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Discover Hojo in Japan

Hojo in the region of Ibaraki is a town located in Japan - some 41 mi or ( 65 km ) North-East of Edo , the country's capital .

Interactive map of Hojo

Local time in Hojo is now 12:25 PM (Sunday) . The local timezone is named " Asia/Tokyo " with a UTC offset of 9 hours. Depending on your flexibility, these larger cities might be interesting for you: Yokohama, Utsunomiya, Edo, Shizuoka, and Shimo-tsuma. When in this area, you might want to check out Yokohama . We found some clip posted online . Scroll down to see the most favourite one or select the video collection in the navigation. Are you looking for some initial hints on what might be interesting in Hojo ? We have collected some references on our attractions page.


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茨城県つくば市目の前を竜巻が通過!

3:26 min by SafetyShopNaito
Views: 1160637 Rating: 4.68

撮影場所URL g.co 北から南に走行中撮影しました。 今回の竜巻で報道はされていませんが、私の仲間にも被害を受けている方がたくさんいます。 ご連絡をいただきました報道各社、番組担当者、マスコミ関係、その他の方には茨城県つくば市で発生した災害の事実を伝えるために、私ができる範囲のことであれば協力させていただく考えでいます。 しかし、残念ながら一部の動画サイトに私の撮影した動画を私に成りすまして掲 ..

せっかくの旅行がまさかのとんぼ返り!? Mt Tsukuba travels #384

3:00 min by SQUASHfilms
Views: 6785 Rating: 4.76

筑波旅②この日は本当にびっくりしましたよようやく目的の筑波山にたどり着けるのか!? この動画は3月7日にスカイツリーから出発して茨城県に移動したところまでです。続きは明日!3月15日!また健ちゃんが頑張って編集してます!お楽しみに! そして4月にも旅に出ます! 皆様のコメントから行き先を選べたら嬉しいです! 是非下のコメント欄に①スカッシュに行って欲しい場所!来て欲しい場所! ②出来るだけ多くの見 ..


【バイク車載】2012年5月竜巻後 茨城県つくば市北条の一部を一周

3:00 min by jeaen
Views: 2844 Rating: 5.00

2012年5月6日、茨城県つくば市で巨大竜巻が発生しました。本動画はつくば市北条の一部を一周してみた車載動画です。竜巻が通って被害にあわれた箇所とまったく被害を受けていない箇所があります。北条市街地へは自動車で行くと市街地の入口で警察が立ち入りを阻止しており関係車両以外は入れません。また国道125号や泉子育観音方面から北条市街地に入る道も渋滞しています。動画中のブレや揺れはご容赦ください。竜巻被害 ..

NB8ロードスター (NB2型) miata mx-5

3:26 min by KK060182
Views: 2157 Rating: 0.00

撮影に使用したのはCANON iVIS HF21です。 ..


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Interesting facts about this location

Belle experiment

The Belle experiment is a particle physics experiment conducted by the Belle Collaboration, an international collaboration of more than 400 physicists and engineers investigating CP-violation effects at the High Energy Accelerator Research Organisation in Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan. The Belle detector, located at the collision point of the e−e+ asymmetric-energy collider, is a multilayer particle detector.

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Located at 36.16 140.07 (Lat./Long.); Less than 3 km away
Tags: Particle experiments

KEKB (accelerator)

KEKB is the name of a particle accelerator used in the Belle experiment to study CP violation. It is called a B-factory for its copious production of B-mesons which provide a golden mode to study and measure the CP violation due to its property of decaying into other lighter mesons.

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Located at 36.15 140.07 (Lat./Long.); Less than 3 km away
Tags: Particle experiments, Particle physics facilities

Photon Factory

The Photon Factory (PF) is a synchrotron located at KEK, in Tsukuba, Japan, about fifty kilometres from Tokyo. There are two major facilities, the Photon Factory itself which is a 2.5GeV synchrotron with a beam current of around 350mA, and the PF-AR 'Advanced Ring for Pulsed X-Rays', which is a 6.5GeV machine running in a single-bunch mode with a beam current of around 35mA. Its macromolecular crystallography beamline is used substantially for Japan's structural genomics project.

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Located at 36.15 140.07 (Lat./Long.); Less than 4 km away
Tags: Synchrotron radiation facilities

KEK

, known as KEK, is a national organization whose purpose is to operate the largest particle physics laboratory in Japan, which is situated in Tsukuba of Ibaraki prefecture. Established in 1997. The term "KEK" is also used to refer to the laboratory itself, which employs approximately 900 employees.

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Located at 36.15 140.08 (Lat./Long.); Less than 4 km away
Tags: 1997 establishments in Japan, Organizations established in 1997, Particle physics facilities, Physics institutes, Populated places in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg county, Research institutes in Japan, Tsukuba, Ibaraki

Mount Tsukuba Cable Car

The Mount Tsukuba Cable Car, officially the Mount Tsukuba Cable Railway Line, is a Japanese funicular line on Mount Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki. It is the only funicular line Tsukuba Kankō Railway (筑波観光鉄道, Tsukuba Kankō Tetsudō, "Tsukuba Sightseeing Railway") operates, while it also operates an aerial tramway, hotels and restaurants. The company belongs to Keisei Group.

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Located at 36.22 140.10 (Lat./Long.); Less than 4 km away
Tags: 1067 mm gauge railways in Japan, Funicular railways in Japan, Rail transport in Ibaraki Prefecture

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