Kanto with kids: The Tokyo area's best family outdoor adventures

Fri, 11/04/2011 - 04:55 — Anonymous Many equate the Kanto area with
Tokyo's vast concrete sprawl. But the seven-prefecture region -- home to 42
million people -- extends from vertiginous, pine-clad mountains in Gunma in
the north to the semitropical Ogasawara Islands in the south.This means
plenty of adventures await within its 32,000 square kilometers. Here are five
of the best, road-tested by our resident parents. Raft the Tone River In
addition to supplying Tokyo with drinking water, Japan's second longest
river also provides some of the best white-water rafting in the country.
During spring snowmelt -- and this year in late summer thanks to unusually
heavy rains -- the river boasts adrenaline-inducing grade-four rapids. var
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