Month: November 2018

Some old towns in Japan still maintain the traditional townscape of old Japanese houses along the street.  Nonoichi City is one of such towns.  But where is Nonoichi?  Perhaps, many people even in Japan don’t know this town.  This city locates next to Kanazawa City and it actually became prosperous ...

The origin of Japanese sweets has a deep connection with the history of the culture of tea ceremony in Japan.  Where tea culture is rooted, there are a variety of traditional sweets.  Kyoto is famous for the culture of tea ceremony as well as sweets.  Another famous town is Kanazawa. ...