Sado Island in Niigata Prefecture has a gold mine. They started digging in 17th Century and continued until 1989. The production of the gold in Sado was the largest in the world during 17th Century. According to Wikipedia, the gold mine in Sado produced as much as 400 kg of ...
I had a very unique experience of a tub boat in Sado Island. It is literally a tub boat made of a tub cut into half. That’s why they call it a “tub boat”. But you may wonder “why tub?”. The story goes back to the early 19th Century when ...
Itchiku Kubota Art Museum, located near Kawaguchi-ko Lake in Yamanashi, is an off-the-beaten-path architecture. Kubota was an textile artist who revived the old silk dyeing. And this museum was dedicated to exhibit his craftwork. The silk he dyed is of course beautiful but what I like most is the architecture ...
Are you coming to Japan during summer time? You can enjoy Japan any time but if you happen to come here in summer, there are several things it’s better to know beforehand. Here are several tips. ...
Yakisoba noodles are typical Japanese foods sold in food stalls. You can find them often in festivals of temples and shrines. With some reason, Fujinomiya City, a town at the foot of Mt. Fuji is famous for yakisoba noodles. Japanese people love yakisoba so much that there are championship tournaments ...
The rainy season of 2019 lasts very long and the rainy weather still continues in the middle of July. But today it became hot and humid. So how about seeing icy caves of Mt. Fuji? Mt. Fuji is a volcano and its eruption of over 1,000 years ago formed caves ...
Cherry blossoms in Tokyo start blooming at the end of March. In Japan, each prefecture has its “sample tree” and when five flowers bloom, the Meteorological Agency officially announce the flowering of the cherry blossoms. This is because the timing of the flowering of cherry blossoms is very important for ...
EOAs of 25 March, 2019, there are still 8 more weeks to go until the exhibition of Le Corbusier at the National Museum of Western Art in Tokyo will finish. This is the exhibition to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the museum which was designed by the world renown architect, ...
Japanese pilgrimage is the origin of tourism in Japan. Japanese inn is a hotel for pilgrims and famous and popular shrines in Japan usually have many inns nearby. The most popular destination for pilgrimage was Ise Shrine in Mie Prefecture. If you travel to Ise, you will find many old ...
It’s the season of plum blossoms! This year, the Plum Blossoms Festival of Yeshima Tenjin Shrine started on 9 February. The festival lasts until early March so I though going there now would be a little too early to enjoy the flowers. But it was not. ...