Traveling to New York?  Here’s a great travel guide for any of you first timers.

New York City is densely populated city in US. As per the charts of 2007 it has been ranked 5th with the population of 18.7 million after Tokyo, Sao Paulo, Mexico City and Seoul. It covers USA’s largest metro area. Immigrants from more than 180 countries dwell here thus making it one of the largest
cosmopolitan cities in the world.

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If you happen to be in Tokyo any time soon, you might want to check out the Imperial Palace.

The Imperial Palace, located in the heart of Tokyo, is home to the Emperor and Empress of Japan. The inner areas of the palace are closed to the public on all but two days of the year, January 2nd and December 23rd (The Emperor’s birthday) but if you plan ahead you can tour some of these areas and it’s free!

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Here’s a picture of Tokyo Water Park.  We highly suggest you to avoid going to such a busy place unless you think you can enjoy yourself and relax among 10,000 other people there…

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Most of Japan’s major cities offer efficient public transportation networks, and are connected with each other by the shinkansen, the Japanese bullet train.

Japan’s main island Honshu is covered by a network of high speed train lines that connect Tokyo with most of the island’s major cities and Fukuoka on the island of Kyushu. Japan’s high speed trains (bullet trains) are called shinkansen and are operated by the JR (Japan Railways).

Need to travel to Europe this summer? Check out these cool map of Europe for all countries in Europe.

You can find out more information about the map of Europe, and map collection at www.lib.utexas.edu