@cine @mrsaturday @prettygood it is absolutely filled with natural beauty and there are many great historic buildings and temples but people are leaving for the cities and temples everywhere are being abandoned. and the uniqueness I saw in the early 1990s has been substantially changed by internationalism and the cultural influence of the Internet. Lots of small things. And selfish things like, missing when you could spend weeks in between seeing another non-Japanese face, to be immersed in unfamiliarity is a powerful experience.