7-8,000 tourists died overnight in the "Zenkoji Earthquake" - a major disaster at Edo's tourist spot

Needless to say, Japan is a country prone to earthquakes. For example, the Great East Japan Earthquake (Tohoku Pacific Ocean Earthquake) which originated off the coast of Sanriku, and the Nankai Trough megathrust earthquakes which strike the entire archipelago, mainly Western Japan, every 100 to 150 years. Large earthquakes of magnitude 7 to 9 (M7.0 to 9.0) occur frequently at regular intervals, and the 2011 tsunami in particular is still trauma…