Bizarre Japan Tourist Attraction #463
This is bizarre but I love it. Off the coast of a small town in Wakayama prefecture, you can find an underwater mailbox - and it’s really in operation! This mailbox is really considered part of Susami’s postal system and mail is collected every day. Apparently there can be up to 200 pieces of mail to collect in peak times.
Susami is over a hundred kilometres away from Osaka in a not very densely populated but highly mountainous part of Kinki. This attraction is obviously like Small Town America’s or Small Town Australia’s attempts at getting tourist dollars. But while Small Town Australia can’t seem to do anything more creative than taking a model of whatever the local product is and making it really big - Susami here is onto a winner, as it also attracts the diver-types.
If you have a lot of spare time in the Kyoto/Osaka region, this might be worth some of it, just to say “I did that”.
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Pink Tentacle
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August 2nd, 2006 at 4:11 pm
There’s also a POST OFFICE at the top of Mount Fuji which sells official postcards and postmarks them with a I-Climbed-Mount-Fuji-Today postmark. Smart folks take a address labels in their climbing pack to send a mass mailing from the top to all your friends…..I did.
August 7th, 2006 at 3:14 pm
Hahaha, that’s awesome XD But not entirely surprising. The Japanese Post Office is pretty amazing. I like the stamps they have sometimes too - with anime and manga characters.