I’m a resident of Nagano, and I was working down south(nanshin, the south of Nagano) until recently. How utterly delightful it is to experience the wonderfully paved roads of Nagano-truly a remarkable achievement!
although we don't learn Chinese character, we can know intuitively whether a word consists of Chinese characters or not. For example, so, most people know that '가' in '가정' and '가족', even '국가', is the same character.