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Drift down the broad, green Mogami — one of Japan's three great rapid rivers — in a flat-bottomed wooden boat while the boatman poles you past gorge walls and waterfalls and sings the old river song by heart.
A canal town in northern Chiba where willow-draped waterways and Edo-period merchant houses survive almost intact — glide through by boat in the home town of the man who first mapped Japan.
