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>Kawasaki? Or in Fukuoka? Or Saitama?

Kawasaki is an industrial city that doesn't really cater to tourists, IDK about Fukoka but Saitama is really a bedroom community for Tokyo.

You got to understand, Japan literally since humanoids inhabited the archipelago has been subjected to; Extreme Earthquakes, Tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, raging city wide fires, Typhoons and in more recent history, war, fire bombings and the first country to be nuked twice in history.
Even in historical districts the japs don't really have an attachment to "preservation" the same way we do. And may shrines, castles are rebuilt just because they were never built to last in the first place. The argument they use is that many of these sites are still sites that are in-use which is why you will find electrical outlets in tori gates over 500 years old.
Even building codes here pretty much make it so that buildings over 10 years old need to get rebuilt or you have pay much higher tax or insurance premiums.

This doesn't mean the areas are not worth visiting and they don't keep the aesthetics or the soul of the attractions.

Also Japan does suck at advertising the less known historical sites and its always Tokyo>Kyoto>Osaka.
There are many great locations that even other Japanese don't know or visit.

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