Bonsai art Tokyo I came across the beautiful weeping cherry blossom Bonsai at TOKYO MIDTOWN in Roppongi Tokyo. TOKYO MIDTOWN area was the SAMURAI residence in middle age, changed as a army ground 1873, renovated as big complex building as TOKYO MIDTOWN 2007. There are restaurants, hotels, museum, residence area, […]
‘SAKURA EXPLOSION at YOYOGI park’ SAKURA EXPLOSION has started in Tokyo!I was at YOYOGI park. YOYOGI park is the big city park in HARAJUKU Tokyo.This area was a SAMURAI residence in middle age , changed as a army ground 1909, owed US after WW2 until 1964, used Olympic village 1964 […]
‘SAKURA EXPLOSION has started!’SAKURA ( cherry blossom) explosion has started in Tokyo! The cherry blossom begun flowering 14th March this year, 12 days earlier than normal year .I visited SHINJUKU-GYOEN park, one of the popular HANAMI ( cherry blossom viewing) spots in Tokyo. SHINJUKU-GYOEN area was the SAMURAI residence in […]
SAKURADA TATSUMI WATCHTOWER is the remains of 400 years old EDO castle. It takes 10 minutes walk from Tokyo station.It’s one of the best photo shoot place around the imperial palace.You can enjoy the contrast of modern Tokyo and traditional EDO( old name of Tokyo) here . I’m Nobu, one […]
‘KATSU CURRY lunch at snow resort’I ate KATSU CURRY ( curry with pork cutlet) at the rest area OLE of GALA YUZAWA SNOW RESORT. KATSU CURRY is the popular dish for lunch in Japan.They are served very quickly because the roux of curry is reserved already.Also the pork cutlet is […]
‘GALA YUZAWA SNOW RESORT-2’ I visited GALA YUZAWA snow resort by SHINKANSEN. GALA YUZAWA station is the SHINKANSEN ( bullet train) station during winter season from 12th December to 5th May.There are direct trains from Tokyo , the fastest one is only 74 minutes.If you get off the gate , […]
‘DAY TRIP TO SNOW RESORT FROM TOKYO’YUZAWA area in NIGATA prefecture is a popular snow resort area which has 12 snow resorts with ONSEN, some of them operate ski World Cup . Most of them are accessible within 2 hours from Tokyo.I visited GALA YUZAWA snow resort by SHINKANSEN.GALA YUZAWA […]
‘WADAKURA FOUNTAIN PARK’ WADAKURA FOUNTAIN PARK is in between Tokyo station and the imperial palace. It’s built in 1961 as a commemoration of the Emperor Emeritus couple wedding and renovated in 1995 as a commemoration of today’s Emperor couple wedding.It takes 5 minutes walk from Tokyo station through MIYUKI DORI( […]
‘SAITO GOMA, extinguish our lust ‘I attended SAITO GOMA ritual at TAKAOSAN-YAKUOUIN temple in Tokyo. It’s the ritual of esoteric Buddhism only in Japan. The original history could be the long time ago when human kind firstly found out the fire. The similar ritual is in the Hindu religion as […]
‘SHUNKA-EN BONSAI MUSEUM ‘I visited SHUNKAEN BONSAI MUSEUM in Tokyo. It’s founded 2002 by KUNIO KOBAYASHI , the famous Bonsai artist who won the prime minister’s prize 4 times . How to care Bonsai? He made the over 100 million yen ( 1 million dollars) Bonsai often.The museum has Japanese […]
‘OTAFUKU, is she beautiful?’This is MIZONOKUCHI shrine in KAWASAKI city next to Tokyo. These 2 faces are ‘ OTAFUKU’ which is the lucky symbol of Japan. OTAFUKU( お多福)literary means ‘ many lucks’.( It sometimes means the uglywoman too…)It represents the women’s lucky face. The shape is round , big cheek […]
‘INFORMATION’ 15th March‘CHERRY BLOSSOM FLOWERING ‘Japan Meteorological Agency announced the cherry blossom flowering has started yesterday ( 14th March). It’s 12 days earlier than the ordinary year. The 5 buds of the standard cherry tree of YASUKINI shrine began to burst . Tokyo Tower was illuminated by pink and white […]
‘TOFU( soybean curd )’Tofu is commonly eaten in daily basis in Japan. It’s made from soybean, yes vegetable food . It’s thought originally from ancient China, now it’s common ingredient in Eastern Asia , China, Korea, Vietnamese, etc…The calorie is very low compare to the meat foods . So now […]
‘EGARA SHRINE in KAMAKURA’This shrine was founded 1104 dedicated for aristocrat SUGAWARA MICHIZANE known as the deity of learning. Many students come here to pray for success of the examinations.Also many manga artists offer gratitude for their pen which they used to draw manga. This tower is presented by 154 […]
‘BONSAI FLOWER’ Bonsai is a Japanese art form of the living potted miniature tree. It reminds us the big tree in the nature.I like the flowering Bonsai a lot.Bonsai is basically green color from its green leaves of Pine , Juniperus , Rockspray cotoneaster , quiet atmosphere. But following Bonsais […]
‘CAFE with patio’This is the SETABI CAFE next to the SETAGAYA museum in the KINUTA park of Tokyo. It has a big quiet patio with a small waterfall.People often come here and relax without buying anything. The menu are very reasonable coffee is 340yen ( 3.4 dollars) and lunch is […]
‘SHIBA PARK next to Tokyo tower’SHIBA park is the city park next to TOKYO TOWER and ZOJOJI temple in the center of Tokyo. It is a precinct of ZOJOJI temple but due to the separation of the politics and religion policy,the surrounding area has converted as a city park 1873 […]
‘100 Stairs ( 百段階段)’The ‘100 stairs ( 百段階段) ‘is the cultural heritage of Hotel GAJOEN in Tokyo, the old 3rd building. It’s basically the beautiful 7 traditional Japanese rooms connected by 99 stairs. ( not 100 stairs ) It’s built in 1935 as restaurants and reception rooms. Each room is […]
‘OOMIYA HIKAWA SHRINE’I visited OOMIYA HIKAWA SHRINE, one of the oldest shrines in the east part of Japan. It’s said founded the 5th emperor KOSHO era, over 2000 years ago.It’s located in OOMIYA city, OOMIYA literally means’ big shrine’ , yes city name is from this shrine. There was a […]
Bonsai art Tokyo, cherry blossom Bonsai!At OOMIYA BONSAI MUSEUM I came across the beautiful cherry blossom Bonsai at OOMIYA Bonsai museum next to Tokyo. It takes 30 minutes train from Tokyo station to Toro station, then 5 minutes walk. The entrance fee is 310yen ( 3 dollars). The whole Bonsai […]
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