‘LANDMARK-TOWER’This tall tower is YOKOHAMA LANDMARK TOWER 296.33m the second tallest building in Japan. ( tallest is ABENO HARUKASU in Osaka 300m). Yokohama is the second largest city in Japan after Tokyo , has 3.8 million residents. It takes 20-30 minutes by train from Tokyo.Yokohama opened as a port city […]
‘MOUNTAIN HUT in OZE’I stayed the mountain hut SHIBUTSU-SANSOU while trekking in OZE wetland. There are 20 mountain huts in OZE trekking area. It costs 9000yen ( 90 dollars) 1 night with dinner and breakfast. There are TATAMI rooms as traditional Japanese style and bunk beds .There is a bath […]
‘The first colorful leaves in OZE national park ‘I trekked OZE national park to see the early colorful leaves. This is one of the 34 national parks in Japan, well preserved the original conditions carefully. OZE is the biggest wetland in Japan formed by volcano dammed river 10000 years ago. […]
‘Night train to OZE ‘OZE is the biggest wetland of Japan which formed 10000 years ago by volcano dammed river . The size is 6km ,3km the elevation is 1400m high ,surrounded by 4 over 2000m tall mountains. It’s one of the 34 national parks of Japan.This area and surrounding […]
‘HIGANBANA in FUCHU local forest museum’I went to the FUCHU local forest museum in west part of Tokyo. It is a huge natural park and museum especially focus on the local culture.It’s not a tourist spot for foreign tourists but many Japanese people enjoy here . It’s the blooming season […]
‘HIGANBANA( heavenly flower)RED SPIDER LILY’ Is this Heaven? No it’s in Japan. Autumn flowers have started blooming recently. The first one is HIGANBANA( heavenly flower), red spider Lily. It is a welcome flower from summer to early autumn in Japan.There are many famous red spider lily blooming fields around Tokyo […]
‘SHRINE FOR WOMEN’I came across ICHIHIME shrine near Kyoto station. It’s founded AD795 famous as ‘ Shrine for women’ . It’s really small shrine but it protects women and said has a majestic power.Especially women for 1: get a good fiancé 2: get a baby 3: have a smooth delivery […]
‘MIURA BEACH’ is 1 hour drive or 1 hour 30 minutes train from Tokyo.It’s a 10km long and sand is whiter than ENOSHIMA. The slope is a bit sharp compare to ENOSHIMA, so more young couples and adults here. There is no itchy jellyfish which often appear late summer in […]
‘SHOSEIEN Japanese garden’If you don’t have time to go to the famous Japanese gardens in Kyoto I recommend here. It’s just 5 minutes walk from Kyoto station, 2 minutes from HIGASHI-HONGANJI TEMPLE.It’s a detached territory of HIGASHI-HONGANJI TEMPLE, you had better visit both because there is no garden at the […]
‘HIGASHI-HONGANJI TEMPLE 5 minutes walk from Kyoto station’If you don’t have enough time to go sightseeing for famous temples in Kyoto , visit HIGASHI-HONGANJI TEMPLE the nearer temple from Kyoto station 5 minutes walk! Was founded 1321, the width 76m, depth 58m , height 38m , the height is shorter […]
‘MINATONO-MIERU OKA( harbor view hill)’is located in Yokohama next to Tokyo.It takes 8 minutes walk from MOTOMACHI-CHUKAGAI STATION of TOKYU LINE. This park is on the hill you can see the view of Yokohama port the biggest port in Japan . The surroundings are calm and quiet nature areas and […]
‘JINDAIJI TEMPLE’is located west part of Tokyo. Was founded AD733 has a bronze Buddha statue of 7th century which is a national treasure . There are a lot of springs around this area because it’s along the low cliff . This area is very calm and quiet atmosphere like suburb […]
‘KISHIN-EN ( Japanese garden)’is located in FUTAGO-TAMAGAWA 14 minutes from Shibuya.This area is next to TAMA river , the biggest river west of Tokyo , which have many springs along the cliff line of this river. This area is a popular residence area of Tokyo, no tourists. This Japanese garden […]
‘KYOTO STATION’is the most modern station in Japan.( even though it’s the most traditional city in Japan!)It’s 16th floors , 60m tall, 470m wide building with department, shops, restaurants and information. 700,000 people use this station everyday, the entrance of the tourists from all over the world and Japan. There […]
‘SHINKANSEN ( bullet train ) ‘ is the first and easiest way to travel Japan. It started 1964 by 220km/hour now 300km/hour . The most impressive thing is it operates every 3-4 minutes, so many .If you get JAPAN RAIL PASS, ( period pass of Japan rail ) , you […]
‘JINDAIJI WATER PLANTS GARDEN’It’s located next to the JINDAIJI temple 40 minutes from center of Tokyo.Inside is very calm and quiet here , preserved the wetland and water plants. There is a boardwalk along the garden, easy to walk . Especially early summer in May , you can see irises […]
‘ATAMI BEACH’ Atami is the famous Onsen resort town 40 minutes Shinkansen ( bullet train ) , 1 hour drive from Tokyo. It’s very popular for locals , 300 onsen hotels ,Ryokans and condominiums , over 6 million people visit every year. There is a beach too, (it’s an artificial […]
This is NIAGARA waterfall in Tokyo at Shinjuku Chuo-Koen ( central park) 10 minutes from Shinjuku west exit, the north part of Tokyo metropolitan government building. I think many people go to Tokyo metropolitan government building 45th floor free observatory.( if you don’t know you should check it!) I recommend […]
‘HOLIDAY OF HOLIDAY,STAY ENOSHIMA’Many people often ask me where to stay in Tokyo while visiting Japan.I answer big terminal towns like SHIBUYA, SHINJUKU, UENO , IKEBUKURO,ASAKUSA…But I sometimes recommend ENOSHIMA to stay , the beach town 1 hour from center of Tokyo. The atmosphere is completely different from center of […]
‘ENOSHIMA WEST BEACH’ is the west part of ENOSHIMA bridge which crosses ENOSHIMA and main land . It’s 1020m long and 150m wide , bit more waves than ENOSHIMA EAST BEACH. It’s said the birth place of Japanese surfing . If the weather is clear you can see Mt.Fuji from […]
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