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You know a particular place has captured your heart when it leaps at the chance to return there. So it is with Iiyama city in Nagano<\/a>, where I first visited almost exactly a year previously. My mother was coming to visit me in Japan for the first time in four years, and I wanted to take her on a short trip to somewhere memorable, away from the overstimulation of the Tokyo metropolis<\/strong>. My first thought: Iiyama city<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My work takes me all over the Japanese countryside, but there is something magical about Iiyama. For starters, there is the scenery, in the western foothills of the long valley north of Nagano city, where the Chikuma River and heavy snowfall provides nutrients to some of Japan’s finest produce<\/strong>. Here, you can see both the western and eastern slopes of the valley on a clear day, and autumn brings dappled colors of red, orange, yellow, and green to them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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