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is a locality in the
The KEEP farm with its focus on dairy farming, initially served as a local community and agricultural development center. Herds of Jersey cows are still a feature of the area, but KEEP is now better known as a year-round resort and conference center and as the home of the
city
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of Hokuto, Yamanashi, Japan
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. At over 1,200m in elevation with views south towards Mount Fuji
is an active stratovolcano located on the Japanese island of Honshu, with a summit elevation of . It is the highest mountain in Japan, the second-highest volcano on any Asian island (after Mount Kerinci on the Indonesian island of Sumatra), a ...
, it is a popular highland resort area and location for second homes.
After the opening of the Koumi Line
The is a railway line in Japan operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East). It links Kobuchizawa Station in Hokuto, Yamanashi with Komoro Station in Komoro, Nagano, and extends 78.9 km (49.0 mi) through the mountains with a total ...
in 1933, Kiyosato rose to prominence as a resort center and as the home of Camp Seisen Ryo, an Anglican
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youth mission center prior to the Second World War
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, rededicated in 1946 as the Kiyosato Educational Experiment Project (KEEP).
Geography
The KEEP farm with its focus on dairy farming, initially served as a local community and agricultural development center. Herds of Jersey cows are still a feature of the area, but KEEP is now better known as a year-round resort and conference center and as the home of the Paul Rusch
Paul Frederick Rusch (1897 – 1979) was a lay missionary of the Anglican Church in Japan.
Rusch is remembered in Japan for his role as an educator and for pioneering activities in development of American football, rural agriculture and post Secon ...
Memorial Museum and the Japan, American Football Hall of Fame.
The original farm property is the focus of the popular Yatsugatake County Fair and Paul Rusch Festival held each October.
Transportation
It is serviced byKiyosato Station
is a railway station in Kiyosato in the city of Hokuto, Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan. Kiyosato Station serves as the gateway to the surrounding highland resort area as well as the Kiyosato Educational Experiment Program (KEEP), a Summer camp ...
on the Koumi Line
The is a railway line in Japan operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East). It links Kobuchizawa Station in Hokuto, Yamanashi with Komoro Station in Komoro, Nagano, and extends 78.9 km (49.0 mi) through the mountains with a total ...
.
See also
* Kiyosato Educational Experiment Project (KEEP) *Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts
The is a gallery of photography in the Kiyosato region
of the city of Hokuto, Yamanashi (Japan).
The gallery was founded in 1995; Eikoh Hosoe has been its director since its opening.
The gallery, which also refers to itself as "K*MoPA", "emb ...
References
External links
Spa towns in Japan Tourist attractions in Yamanashi Prefecture {{Yamanashi-geo-stub