Add to your favourites
More Places
Chiran Travel Guides | Chiran Travel Opinions | Chiran Travel Tips | Chiran Travel Advice |
World/Home>>
Thousands More Travel Guides
Online Maps
Population:
126,714,000
Capital:
Tokyo
Click image for cheap hotels, cheap airline tickets and car rentals!
Feel free to read the Travel Guides and Tips but don't forget to
add your own Tip!
- anything you think might be useful to another traveller going to this place. Anything at all!
Click here to ensure this is the latest information for Chiran
Extract from the Chiran Travel Guides: A small town lying in a broad valley,
CHIRAN
owes its fortune to the Shimazu lords of Kagoshima . In the eighteenth century, the Shimazu's chief retainers, the Sata family, were permitted to build a semi-fortified village and a number of their lovely
samurai houses
survive today. After exploring the samurai quarter, next stop is a former airfield on the outskirts of town where the kamikaze suicide bombers were based. The site has now been turned into a
museum
, documenting the history of the kamikaze and commemorating the hundreds of young pilots who died. ...
read the whole Chiran Travel Guides...
View books from Amazon.co.uk
Frontiers of Heaven : A Journey to the End of China
River Town : Two Years on the Yangtze
National Geographic Traveler China (National Geographic Traveler)
$13.97
Stanley Stewart
$11.16
Peter Hessler
$19.01
Damian Harper
Discounted Hotels in Chiran
Car Rentals
Flights
Vacation Rentals
:
"If you look like your passport photo, you're too ill to travel. (Will Kommen)"
Feedback
|
User Agreement
|
Privacy Statement
Travel Slang 2003 - 2004 TravelSlang.com. All Rights Reserved.
Chiran Travel Guides
,Tips,Opinions and Advice.
Search
Travel Guides,Tips,Opinions & Advice :
Asia
:
Africa
:
Central America/Caribbean
:
Europe
:
Middle East
:
North America
:
Oceania
:
South America
Chiran Travel Guides | Chiran Travel Opinions | Chiran Travel Tips | Chiran Travel Advice |