`Ikigai (çãç²æ, pronounced [ikiÉ¡ai]) is a Japanese concept meaning a reason for being. Everyone, according to the Japanese, has an ikigai. Finding it requires a deep and often lengthy search of self. Such a search is regarded as being very important, since it is believed that discovery of one's ikigai brings satisfaction and meaning to life. In the culture of Okinawa, ikigai is thought of as a reason to get up in the morning; that is, a reason to enjoy life.
Virginia City, the best known of these and the sole survivor, became the Capitol of the Territory. The very much alive ghost town, Virginia City, Montana, is frozen in time. It is a remarkably well preserved old west Victorian gold mining town just 20 miles west of Yellowstone National Park (90 miles by road).
Directions. The main Virginia Tech campus is located in Blacksburg, Va., about 40 miles southwest of Roanoke, Va. Use 965 Prices Fork Road or the intersection of University City Boulevard and Prices Fork Road, Blacksburg, VA 24060 as a destination for online routing and mapping software and GPS devices. Turn left at the stoplight at the end of the ramp onto U.S. 460 East. 2  Continue on U.S. 460 East for about 44.9 miles (11.6 in W.Va., 33.3 in Virginia). 3  Take the Toms Creek Road exit. 4  Turn left onto Toms Creek Road.