Recommended accommodation for those traveling on a budget from overseas (Lake Towada, Aomori Prefecture)
Cherry blossom season is the best time to visit Japan. In major cities such as Osaka, Kyoto, and Tokyo, the trees are often in full bloom around the end of March. However, at this time of year, there are a…
Kobe Chinatown（神戸中華街）
Chinatowns are located in three major cities: Yokohama, Nagasaki, and Kobe. Yokohama is the largest, followed by Kobe. Previously, I wrote an article about Yokohama Chinatown. Kobe’s Chinatown is located in Kobe’s Nankinmachi. Not far from JR and Motomachi station…
How to find out where the picture of Mt. Fuji was taken（どこから撮影した富士山か知る方法）
Mt. Fuji is a very beautiful mountain, but it is not symmetrical. There is a circular crater at the top, but the height is different. The highest point in the west, this is the highest point in the Japanese archipelago….
Novelists and hot springs（小説家と温泉）
There were novelists who wrote with staying inns in a hot spring. For me, who loves hot springs, I think it’s a completely enviable way of working. There is a literature museum in Kinosaki Onsen in Toyooka City, Hyogo Prefecture….
The only Slovenian restaurant in Japan “Pikapolonca” with the ladybugs（日本唯一のスロベニア料理店＝テントウムシ＝ピカポロンツァ）
When I hear of Slovenia, it was hard for me and probably any Japanese people to imagine where it was. Even if you hear that it is a country of the former Yugoslavia, unfortunately there are very few information that…
Ramen & Italian restaurant “Coccinella” in Nishi-ku, Osaka（ラーメン＆イタリア料理店 コッチネッラ 大阪市西区）
In the second largest city in Japan, Osaka, there is a green park called Utsubo Park in the center of the city. The restaurant Coccinella is located close to it. Excuse me, but it doesn’t have a high-class feel, and…
Showa Shinzan where a wheat field suddenly changed to a mountain（麦畑が急に山になった－昭和新山）
The Japanese archipelago has volcanoes here and there. Occasionally, eruptive activity becomes active, affecting the local area. However, it is rare for a mountain to be created rapidly. In about 600 days from 1943 to 1945, the wheat field near…
This is not Mt. Fuji, but Mt. Yotei in Hokkaido（これは富士山ではありません 北海道の羊蹄山です）
I don’t think there is a mountain in the world that is as well-shaped as Mt. Fuji. It is a volcano formed by the regular arrangement of lava that has flowed out due to the eruption,. There is a mountain…
Japanese Jomon Culture (Part 2) Sannai Maruyama Site 日本の縄文文化（その２） 三内丸山遺跡
The northernmost area of Honshu which is the largest and most important island in the Japanese archipelago, seems to have been the center of Japan in the Jomon period thousands of years ago. There are Jomon archaeological sites here and…
Japanese Jomon culture (1) Humorous clay figurines 日本の縄文文化（その１） ユーモラスな土偶
The glacial period ended about 10,000 years ago. Then humankind, which had already spread all over the world, has blossomed civilization in various places. So-called four major civilizations have emerged in the Middle East and Asia. In Japan, various relics…
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