Monthly Archives for June 2014
Hakusan Shrine, Niigata
Hakusan Shrine is Niigata city’s most prominent Shinto shrine. Hakusan Shrine is worth seeing all season round. Hakusan’s beauty is transformed likewise in all of these different seasons being frozen over in winter to blooming with cherry blossoms and peach … Continue reading
Yosakoi Soran Festival 2014
Yosakoi Soran Festival is a type of team dance competition held in June in Sapporo. Wearing colorful and unique costumes, people from all around Hokkaido dance lively with Naruko, wooden percussion instruments, to the music of “soran,” old herring fishermen’s … Continue reading
Hydrangea Garden Yohena, Okinawa
Today marks the start of the raining season in most parts of Japan. It means that it is also the season of hydrangea! The hydrangeas are blooming at Hydrangea Garden Yohena, Okinawa. Some says that hydrangea which got wet in the … Continue reading
Tokyo Tower celebrate Tanabata
This month, Tokyo Tower will schedule with a beautiful light display that ties in with Japan’s Tanabata star festival. Held each year on July 7, Tanabata has its roots in a Chinese folktale about a pair of tragic lovers. In celebration, Tokyo Tower’s … Continue reading
Kitaro Chaya, Jindaiji
Kitaro is a popular and unique manga/anime “yokai” boy character. Found him and his friends cafe in Jindaiji. Horrible, but charming yokai means “spirits”, “demons” or “fairy”, they’re originally from Japanese folklore characters were welcoming us from all around the cafe (chaya).