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The Hundred Caves of Yoshimi

My Visit to Japan’s “Cappadocia”

Donny Kimball
7 min readJun 13, 2019

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The Hundred Caves of Yoshimi in Saitama Prefecture, the so-called “Cappadocia of Japan”

Let’s face it. Saitama gets a pretty bad rap. Known to many Tokyoites as little more than a lame bedroom community for the capital, the prefecture is rarely something that foreign tourists even consider visiting. As a big fan of Saitama, this is a real shame. You see, dotted all across…

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Donny Kimball

I'm a travel writer and freelance digital marketer who blogs about the sides of Japan that you can't find in the mainstream media. https://donnykimball.com/