Although, Koriyama is surrounded by mountains and extinct volcanoes. Nagano Nagano is a modest-size city, tucked in the Japanese Alps. The city appears modern and rather flat, but it is surrounded by snow-capped mountains, even in summer. After visiting the Olympic grounds and Zenkoji Buddhist Temple, Sarah remembers the fun sampling regional food. The noodles were fun to eat.
Restaurants get pretty noisy with people slurping.
Throughout Japan rice appears on the table at breakfast, lunch and dinner. In fact, rice paddies were only a short walk from the front door of White Ring, the Nagano Olympic ice skating rink. Visited Production of Kids' Eye View of Japan with Kristi Yamaguchi was made possible, in part, by a grant from Moore Technologies. This page and all contents copyright 2000 KTEH, except some images used under license.