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laeltac Welcome to Kumamoto-International! This is the wiki, a collaboratively edited website, for people living in and around Kumamoto and for those interested in visiting or just interested in Kumamoto and its surroundings. If you'd like to start, check out the Getting Started page for help. Welcome aboard!!
Daily Living
- Bank Accounts
- Barbers and Beauticians
- Doctors and Dentists
- Drivers Licenses
- Re-entry visa (Sai nyuukoku kyoka)
- Gaikokujin Touroku Shoumeisho
- Moot court (Saibaninseido)
- Shaken
- Recycling
- TV stations in Kumamoto
- Good Water
- Manga/Anime/Game Resources
- libraries
General Info
List of facts about Kumamoto
Kumamoto city is the capital of Kumamoto Prefecture. The population is 670,000. It is becoming the central city of Kyushu. location: Kumamoto is located on the southernmost island of the Japanese archipelago (Kyushu), and is the 2nd largest city after Fukuoka. It is about 7,401 sq.km. and is at the same latitude as Casablanca and Dallas. The name of Kumamoto used to be called "Hi no Kuni" which means the land of the fire, sun and fertility. The prefectural flower of Kumamoto is Gentian and the prefectural bird is Skylark. Kumamoto is a city full of natural resources and historic heritage. There are much green throughout the year. The main events during the year are Ushibuka Haiya and Hi-no-kuni festival.
In and around Kumamoto city
Out and about in Kumamoto Prefecture
Contrary to the beliefs of many, there is a wealth of things to do in Kumamoto. It has been called a countryside town, but what's wrong with the countryside?!
- Family Spa
- Amakusa
- Aso
- Arao
- Hitoyoshi
- Kikuchi
- Mifune
- Minamata
- Oguni/Kurokawa
- Tamana
- Ueki
- Uto
- Yamaga
- Koshi
- Yatsushiro
- Yamaga
- night view
- JR train lines
Further afield
Kumamoto is centrally located in the island of Kyushu, making a day/weekend trip to almost any part of Kyushu a possibility. Here are the other prefectures in Kyushu, (to be) linked to pages with various places and activities
And if you are interested in finding out times and ticket prices anywhere on the JR system, use the handy English search page at http://grace.hyperdia.com/cgi-english/hyperd01.cgi
Today Kumamoto, tomorrow the world!
Kumamoto City has exchanges with the following cities:
- Heidelberg, Germany
- Guilin, China
- San Antonio, TX, USA
Kumamoto Prefecture has sister relations with:
- Guangxi Autonomous Region (China) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guangxi
- The State of Montana (USA) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montana
- Chungnam Province (Chungcheongnam-do, South Korea) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chungcheongnam-do
- Yasuo's me Cloud
History of Kumamoto
People and Organizations in Kumamoto
This section contains primarily of self published pages of people and groups in Kumamoto for the first three categories and student written essays for the last section. It is divided into the following sections
- Long time residents (including those from Kumamoto-i)
- Exchange students and JET participants
- Japanese students
- Organizations
- Historical figures
- High Schools
For those of you who may be spending just a year or so in Kumamoto, feel free to take an account and set up a user page so that you can keep in touch with people when you return home.
Please note that it is not considered good wiki etiquette to edit another person's user page.
Language Teachers and schools in Kumamoto
This section is a self listing of language teachers. If you are looking for a language teacher, please check out the people below, if you are interested in teaching, please make an account with the Kumamoto-i wiki and post your own page.
English Teachers
Japanese teachers
Organizations
- Jelly Bean English Preschool click for the webpage
- ETJ
- Rumpus Room English Preschool click for homepage
- Angel's English School
- The Eagle's Nest English School[1]
- Hilltop International School
Learning Japanese
While not specifically related to Kumamoto, this section will have information about learning Japanese available on the internet.
My Kumamoto
This section is for students to develop some essays/compositions about things they like in Kumamoto (both the city and the prefecture) that we will be able to transfer to the main sections. While anyone can edit anything on the wiki, it is requested that you not edit these, but use the discussion pages to make comments to students to incorporate into their essays and at some later point, we will try to transfer the information to the main sections. Your cooperation is greatly appreciated.
Maps
This section is for collecting maps (mainly pininthemap) of places in Kumamoto.
Try the Google Maps test.
Computers and English 2006 is here
