Hidaka City in Saitama Prefecture has a wonderful flower field of Red Spider Lilies. The details are in my previous posting. This is also a place to feel Korea in Japan. This is because people immigrated to this place from Korean Peninsula about 1,300 years ago. Right after you get ...
Red spider lilies know the season very well and they always become full in bloom around the Autumn Equinox Day. This year, too. Though it had been terribly hot this summer, the timing of the flower blooming did not change. Since they bloom almost the same time every year, we ...
I found Japanese shopping bags are beautiful. Some of them are elegant and some are cute. So I cannot resist from collecting them. But I don’t want to use them because they look nice and I end up finding my closet full of them. This is a bad habit maybe ...
Safety tips are always important while traveling especially in abroad. You may want to know the essential contact numbers during an emergency. It may be difficult to find the contact places immediately so why don’t you check the safety tips well beforehand? The number of websites providing information in English ...
You may find it weird if I say there are several Mt. Fuji in Tokyo. But there are. I heard that there were over 100 Mt. Fuji in Tokyo. As I wrote a little in my previous posting about Mt. Fuji, there was a custom to worship Mt. Fuji. During ...
Viewing Tokyo from Roppongi Hills is marvelous. You can enjoy a stunning view from the top of Mori Tower there. Roppongi has a lot to offer from shopping complexes of Roppongi Hills and Tokyo Midtown to museums, from a wide variety of restaurants to hip clubs and bars where oversea ...
West meets east. It was a century-old story of Japanese history. The western-style architecture started flowing into Japan in late 19th century. That was the time when the Japanese government system changed dramatically. During the course of the cultural change, the new government encouraged to adopt western style and western ...
September is the season for autumn festivals. Every weekend, the festivals are held somewhere in Japan. It is the festival to appreciate the crop. Almost every town in Japan participates in the autumn festivals of the region. Typically, people carry portable shrines and offer the pray at the shrine. Along ...
Sometimes, Japanese shops have unique facade. I would like to show them to you whenever I found one. Today, let me present you the examples I saw recently. Facade 1: A Carpenter on the Roof The first one is the roof of the office of a construction company Takachiho Construction ...
When I went to Kuramae last time, I saw a stationery shop called Kakimori. This is a very unique shop where you can make your own one-and-only notebook. There are two sizes you can choose from; B5 (182x257mm) and B6 (128x182mm). ...