1. PHYSICAL FEATURES OF JAPAN

2. Japan is part of the Ring of Fire
Japan is part of the Ring of Fire. The Ring of Fire is the name used to describe a band of active volcanoes. The band circles around the edges of the Pacific Ocean.

3. SNOW MOUNTAINS

4. Hokkaido MOUNTAIN
Hokkaido the northern most island is Japan's wild frontier. Colonised just 150 years ago, and until then the homeland of the aboriginal Ainu people, its landscape is radically un-Japanese - barely a temple or gravel Zen garden graces its entire 84,000 sparsely populated square kilometres.

5. Hokkaido lake

6. Right at the tip of Hokkaido, deep in a lush tract of forest known as the Shiretoko peninsula, is a true natural wonder: the thermal waterfall of Kamuiwakka-no-taki. Translated from the local Ainu language, as Water of the Gods. Along the way, it splashes from one turquoise rock pool into another, filling the woodlands with steam and haze and the faint aroma of sulphur.

7. ICE Hotel in Hokkaido

8. Tea fields in the valleys around Mount Fuji stretch for miles on Japan's main Honshu Island. Antioxidants in Japanese green tea, which is harvested from the uppermost shoots and buds of the Camellia sinensis plant, have been linked to numerous health benefits.

9. Mt. Fuji is a sacred mountain
Mt. Fuji is a sacred mountain. The people of Japan climb the mountain to show their respect.
MOUNT FUJI

10. Shiraito falls
Rainbow bridge - Tokyo

11. Hot springs

12. Kyushu island

13. The Yamanashi region of Japan is famous for its fruit growing.