From swimming swans to looming windmills, Huis Ten Bosch looks like a classic village in The Netherlands.
There's just one key difference—it's not on the outskirts of Amsterdam, it's located on a Japanese peninsula not far from the the city of Nagasaki.
Japan's Huis Ten Bosch is actually an enormous theme park modeled after a seventeenth-century Dutch town. It's been around for two decades and is a popular destination for tourists.
Alison Park-Douglas visited the park in 2010 and shared her photos with us.
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Welcome to Huis Ten Bosch, named after one of the three official residences of the Dutch ruling family.
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The name translates to "House in the Forest."
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While the theme park was built in 1992, the area actually has a centuries-old connection to The Netherlands.
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