Its fruit is sweet and usually seedless, about the size of other mandarin oranges (Citrus reticulata), smaller than an orange. One of the....
12 Mar 11:12 am  from  Alexandregervais   [Profile] [Recent] 

I wrote a post last month that Tokyo will be getting two new pandas from China for 上野動物園 (Ueno Zoo) to replace the one that died a....
12 Mar 12:59 am  from  Tokyo Five   [Profile] [Recent] 

Asakusa is full of contradictions – run down and filthy in places and yet home to the futuristic Philippe Starck-designed Asahi headquar....
11 Mar 11:07 pm  from  Zonjineko   [Profile] [Recent] 

The lantern was introduced to Japan at the same time as Buddhism, in the 6th century. The ishi-doro or stone lantern is the most common t....
11 Mar 12:35 pm  from  Alexandregervais   [Profile] [Recent] 

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11 Mar 12:56 am  from  Yo Japan   [Profile] [Recent] 

Lol bit of a shock logging on to the blog to find out it was down… Anyway was my birthday on the 7th of March. Celebrated by going out for....
10 Mar 7:52 pm  from     [Profile] [Recent] 

Historically Kyoto was the largest city in Japan, later surpassed by Osaka and Tokyo towards the end of the 16th century. In the prewar y....
10 Mar 9:04 am  from  Alexandregervais   [Profile] [Recent] 

Hit the commute home on the Odayku line an hour...Visit TokyoFilter.com to check out this video.....
9 Mar 8:44 pm  from  Tokyo Filter   [Profile] [Recent] 

Nanzen-ji was founded in the middle Heian period. Nanzen-ji is not itself considered one of the “five great Zen temples of Kyoto”; ho....
9 Mar 11:54 am  from  Alexandregervais   [Profile] [Recent] 

Well, folks, my tourism project with ICIEA has finally come to a close. It was a lot of fun, and I’m thankful for the experience. I crea....
9 Mar 9:00 am  from  Rockinginhakata   [Profile] [Recent] 

This photo of a stencil sprayed on a wall in Munich is by far the most popular image on my Flickr stream. According to the stats it curren....
9 Mar 12:16 am  from     [Profile] [Recent] 

Arashiyama is a pleasant, touristy district at the outskirts of Kyoto. Its landmark is the wooden (now partially concrete) Togetsukyo Bri....
8 Mar 9:03 am  from  Alexandregervais   [Profile] [Recent] 

The Kyōto Imperial Palace is the latest of the imperial palaces built at or near its site in the north-eastern part of the old capital o....
7 Mar 10:19 am  from  Alexandregervais   [Profile] [Recent] 

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6 Mar 9:09 pm  from  Yo Japan   [Profile] [Recent] 

The Kyoto Imperial Palace (京都御所 Kyōto Gosho) is an imperial palace of Japan, though the Emperor of Japan is not in residence. Th....
6 Mar 11:54 am  from  Alexandregervais   [Profile] [Recent] 

The Palace Grounds include a number of buildings, along with the Imperial Residence, or dairi (内裏). The neighboring building to the n....
5 Mar 9:56 am  from  Alexandregervais   [Profile] [Recent] 

This was shot on a busy Sunday afternoon on Jingu Bridge in Harajuku, Tokyo.The area was packed with locals and tourists alike trying to....
4 Mar 8:27 pm  from  Zonjineko   [Profile] [Recent] 

Japanese cuisine is based on combining staple foods (shushoku, 主食), typically rice or noodles, with a soup and okazu (おかず) — ....
4 Mar 9:03 am  from  Alexandregervais   [Profile] [Recent] 

The Nio Mon Gate of Jojakkoji with its thatched roof contains a Niozo statue sculpted by Unkei while the Taho To Tower (an important cult....
3 Mar 8:34 am  from     [Profile] [Recent] 

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3 Mar 12:01 am  from  Yo Japan   [Profile] [Recent] 

In 1601, Tokugawa Ieyasu, the founder of the Tokugawa Shogunate, ordered all the feudal lords in Western Japan to contribute to the const....
2 Mar 10:47 am  from  Alexandregervais   [Profile] [Recent] 

I shot this image of one of the market stalls littering the Ameyoko; a busy street market that runs along the main railway line in Ueno, T....
1 Mar 8:01 pm  from  Zonjineko   [Profile] [Recent] 

The center of the Shishinden is surrounded by a hisashi (庇), a long, thin hallway which surrounded the main wing of an aristocrat’s h....
1 Mar 10:37 am  from  Alexandregervais   [Profile] [Recent] 

The shrine became the object of Imperial patronage during the early Heian period. In 965, Emperor Murakami ordered that Imperial messenge....
28 Feb 11:14 am  from  Alexandregervais   [Profile] [Recent] 

This is the cardboard hand that was wearing a pair of gloves when I bought them, a little while ago.The fingers were not bent when I bought ....
27 Feb 9:27 pm  from  present simple   [Profile] [Recent] 

The castle area has several gardens and groves of cherry and ume trees. The Ninomaru garden was designed by the famous landscape architec....
27 Feb 2:28 pm  from  Alexandregervais   [Profile] [Recent] 

The palace is situated in the Kyōto Gyoen (京都御苑 kyōto gyoen), a rectangular enclosure 1.3 km north to south and 0.7 km east to ....
26 Feb 10:35 am  from  Alexandregervais   [Profile] [Recent] 

Nijō Castle (二条城 Nijō-jō) is a flatland castle located in Kyoto, Japan. The castle consists of two concentric rings of fortifica....
25 Feb 9:31 am  from  Alexandregervais   [Profile] [Recent] 

McDonald’s Japan is currently in the middle...Visit TokyoFilter.com to check out this video.....
25 Feb 12:01 am  from  Tokyo Filter   [Profile] [Recent] 

The entire stretch of the line was opened at once on April 1, 1927 by Odakyū Electric Railway. In 1942, Odakyū was forcibly merged by t....
24 Feb 1:02 pm  from  Alexandregervais   [Profile] [Recent]