‘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 , […]
‘GALA YUZAWA SNOW RESORT-1’ 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 […]
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