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Dear kind visitors, Welcome to this website titled "Visiting Tondabayashi Jinaimachi". Thank you very much for visiting. I myself, the author of this website, was born and raised up in the town of Tondabayashi Jinaimachi. Now I am a company employee and live in Yokohama next to Tokyo, the capital of Japan, which is about 550 kilometers away from the home town. During the student in university, I had experinced to work as a student tour guide in Kyoto, the old capital of Japan, for Japanese elementary students on excursion trips as well as visitors to various sites of Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines which are occasionally open to the publc during summer and winter seasons. Nearly 20 years have passed since I started to work as an employee of a Japanese trading company and I have ever lived as an expartriate in the U.S.A. and Singapore for 7 years. During the overseas assignment, I had also experienced to explain things Japanese to foreign business associates, freinds and visitors. It was a great opportunity for me to recognize the importance of introducing Japanese culture to foreign people all over the world and the experience really encouraged me to be qualified as a Government-licensed tour guide when I repartiriated from the overseas assignments. After I could successfully obtain the tour guide license from Japanese government, I made up my mind to introduce my home town, Tondabayashi Jinaimachi, one of the important historical districts and heritage sites of Japan through the Internet. I hope many visitors who can reach this website may enjoy a virtual journey and may find the unique history, culture and landscape of Jinaimachi town. This website may also help you visit Tondabayashi Jinaimachi when you have a good chance to come to Japan in order to visit Kyoto, Nara or Universal Studio Japan in Osaka. I like the town all the better because it remains as used to be, which is quite different from other popular sightseeing spots with full of tourism. This website is also intended to introduce such activities as to preserve the original landscape of the town by the local government and residents' association, and to guide visitors in group by a volunteer tour guide. I thank you very much once again for the cooperations extended to me in providing varuious information in conjunction with Tondabayashi Jinaimachi. I do hope the historical district of Jinaimachi Town may possiblly be nominated as one of the world heritage sites by the United Nation (UNESCO) in the near future. Best wishes. By the author of "Visiting Tondabayashi Jinaimachi" 「富田林・寺内町の探訪」 Dated as of January 3, 2003 as a commemoration of releasing the English version.

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