In the same vicinity as the Kiyosumi Teien Garden (in my last blog post), you will find the Tomioka Hachimangu Shrine, founded in 1627, a sh....
4 Sep 6:30 am  from  Konnichiwa   [Profile]  [Recent] 

Seeing rice grown in buckets and styrofoam boxes always amazes me: focusing the national obsession with the main staple into a city scale. ....
3 Aug 5:02 pm  from  Unknown   [Profile]  [Recent] 

I managed to visit the Hanazono festival in May twice, once during the day and once at night. In the nighttime, the lights, food, and atmos....
29 Jun 9:01 am  from  Unknown   [Profile]  [Recent] 

The end of Eri’s walking tour was the magnificent Kishibojin temple. The buildings are old, pre-dating the war and probably the 1923 Gre....
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After missing my first meetup because of jet lag I was finally a few days later able to meet up with some friends! This time I met up with M....
24 Jan 9:05 pm  from  Yonasu   [Profile]  [Recent] 

Red tori (shinto gates) at an inari fox shrine in Shimane prefecture. ....
30 Nov 3:00 am  from  The View from Japan   [Profile]  [Recent] 

A moss covered tori (gate to a shinto shrine) at Mount Daisen, Tottori prefecture. ....
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I visited Odakyu’s Agris Seijo rental farm in Seijogakuenmae in Setagaya and was prepared to be charmed by a community vegetable farm bui....
22 Nov 10:54 pm  from  Tokyo Green Space   [Profile]  [Recent]