‘1- Travel’ Archives
Emperor visits Nasu
Emperor of Japan often visit resort areas in Japan especially in hot summer time for escaping from busy days and taking a rest. Close to my hometown, there is a popular resort palce, NASU. Emperor would visit there every now and then, remembering the time of his visit, the roads are crowded with people to celebrate the visit with national [...]
Obon Time of Japan
It's an update in this blog after a long time interval. Sorry about it. Now we have, what we call, Obon time in Japan, which is one of traditional national events with consecutive national holidays. Usually people of Japan enjoy holidays from 13th to 15th of August, and many go back to their hometown. The reason for their retruning home is [...]
Japan is still in Winter ?
It's too cold still in Japan. You should be cafeful on your clothes if your Japan tour plan is close. It's really unusual climate today, the news said that Miyazaki city, where is located in southern part of Japan, had record low temperature in the last 100 years ! This is not just a phenomena seen only in Miyazaki but all over Japan now. [...]
Castle Cities of Japan
Japan used to be a country of battles among district Shoguns or Kings of Warriors. They had their Castle in their territory and the castles still remain in some cities. Actually, most famous castle we can see is Edojo Castle, which is a Castle in Tokyo. Emperor of Japan now live in that castle, so nobody can go in now. Edojo, or Tokyo [...]
SEIBU department Yurakucho store to close this year
This is a little shocking news for me because I often visit this department store. SEIBU department store has a lot of branch stores in Japan, and Yurakucho store or the Ginza area store is one of the most sophisticated branch store of them all. It's located just near the Yurakucho station, and the building is a complex with some good cinema [...]
New Year Started with heavy snow in Japan
It's said that the world is facing global warming. However, this year started with heavy snow in my hometown and in the northern parts of Japan. When we were kids, every year we had heavy snow and we could enjoy skiing and skating. Recent years, the amount of snow in winter of Japan decreased apparently, compared to the time of our [...]
Under 7 million travelers to Japan
Recently numbers of travelers to Japan has been on the increase for a long time. According to recent statistics, the numbers of last year went down under 7 million travelers. For the last 4 years, it's been more than 7 million. This big reduction in numbers is mainly because of the financial crisis, which led higher Japanese Yen rate. The [...]
MAMPEI HOTEL in Karuizawa, Footprint of JOHN LENNON in Japan
As everyone knows, godsent genius John Lennon chose a Japanes for his second wife, Yoko Ono. While John was busy as house husband for his son, Sean, Yoko Ono and John Lennon came to Japan with Sean. In Japan, John and Yoko visited Karuizawa, a city of resort, each year from 1976 to 1979 before John was shot to death. Then the hotel they [...]
Why Hawaii ?
This is not about Japanese travel but my favourite islands, Hawaii. Please skip this article if you search for Japanese domestic travel information. I love Hawaii just like I love Japan. This is not simple meaning because I really feel like Hawaii is my home town or birth place although I was born and raised in a small country city of [...]
World No.1 Gourmet City, TOKYO by Michelin Tokyo 2010
Michelin Japan today held a press conference in Tokyo about the Michelin Guide of Tokyo 2010. according the the news, Tokyo again stayed on the NO.1 status of the world Gourmet Cities judging from the 3 star restaurant number ( 11 restaurants ) and the total star numbers of restaurants shown in the guidebook. It's not fair to decide the NO.1 [...]
