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1. Website
"CHIBA, JAPAN TRAVEL GUIDE -- Where the Fun Begins!"
(URL: http://japan-chiba-guide.com/ )
Facebook page "Japan Tourism- Chiba"
(URL: https://www.facebook.com/Japan.Tourism.Chiba )
2. Launch date
September 17, 2014
3. Main features
-- Launching a new website tailored for navigation on a smartphone, making it easier for foreign tourists to search for travel information, including finding ways to visit sightseeing spots from wherever they are.
-- Opening a Facebook page to provide a wide range of information about Chiba's attractions as quickly as it becomes available.
-- Attaching elaborate digital map to travel information, showing not only the searched spot but also many other sightseeing locations around it.
-- Adding the Malay language to the website, strengthening its support for travelers from Southeast Asia.
-- Showing the Chiba website's Malay and English editions some of the spots in Chiba Prefecture catering to the special needs of Muslim people.
* From September 17, visitors to the old website will be automatically forwarded to the updated website.
The old website
"Welcome to Chiba" ( http://www.chiba-tour.jp/ )
SOURCE: Press and Public Relations Division, Chiba Prefectural Government
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