Hirado

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Hirado (平戸市, Hirado-shi^?) Hirado city is located on the very norhtwestern tip of Kyushu and has the most western train station in Japan. The city council area is a large area covering many inhabited and uninhabited islands. It merged in 2006 out of Ikitsuki Island (生月町, Ikitsuki-cho^?), Oshima Island (大島村, Oshima-mura^?), Hirado Island (平戸市, Hirado-shi^?) and Tabira (田平町, Tabira-cho^?).

You'll find Hirado a great place to be in, if you don't mind Japanese countryside. It has nice beaches, lots of cultural sights and nice communities on the various islands. It is actually one of the better countryside places to be in and not so dull as other places can be. Lots of JETs from surrounding villages and towns come here in their weekends to go to the beach, visit the castle, walk around the historical sights such as temples and museums or to soak in one of the onsen (hot springs). Hirado has a great English website with all the information you need, including downloadable maps, event lists and more, so make sure to check it out.

Working

JET placements

There are 7 JETs in the Hirado area:

4 Hirado City BOE ALTs:

one based on Ikitsuki Island (Tachiura town)

one based on Oshima Island (Konoura hamlet)

one based on Hirado Island (Hirado city) one based in Tabira (Tabira town) All the ALTs have schools in their repsective areas and on Hirado island, as this is too large to be covered by the one ALT in Hirado.

2 Nagasaki Prefecture BOE ALTs: one at Hirado Senior High School (Himosashi Village, Hirado Island) one at Yukokan Senior High School (Hirado City, Hirado Island)

1 Hirado City Planning Division CIR Dutch CIR based at the Hirado city hall

Shopping

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Eating

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Japanese food

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Drinking

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Living

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Map

Use the controls on the left to scroll and zoom around the map below.

  edit instruction

• To get long and lat, see http://itouchmap.com/latlong.html
• Use the following template:

<googlemap lat="34.6" lon="133.4666667" zoom="12" zoom="13" width="660" height="500" type="map" controls="large">
34.6,133.4666667,Ibara
</googlemap>

• For instructions on how to edit this Google map and add labeled marker pins, please see Help:Googlemaps.

<googlemap lat="36.31512514748051" lon="137.900390625" zoom="5" width="600" height="500" type="map">

</googlemap>

External links

• Hirado City Official Homepage (English)
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• XXXXX city official homepage (Japanese)