Miyako-jima

Very Quiet Theme Park on Miyako-jima and Mr. Taira

[ Apr.2019 ] I continue talking about our taxi tour on Miyako-jima, one of the islands in Okinawa prefecture in Japan. The next place we visited was a theme park called “Ueno German Cultural Village”….

Miyako-jima

The Colour of the Sea of Miyako-jima Woke Me Up

[ Apr.2019 ] In the morning of the second day on Miyako-jima, one of the islands in Okinawa prefecture in Japan, I felt a bit dull and heavy because of the Awamori, the local strong…

Akita

At Senshu Park

[ Sept.2018 ] In Akita city in Japan, we went to Senshu Park next. This park was built on the site of the Kubota Castle where the Satake family lived, and Satake Yoshinobu was the…

Akita

The Painting of Tsuguharu Foujita in Akita

[ Sept.2018 ] The next day, after staying in a Ryokan in the Oga Hot-Spring resort in the Akita prefecture in Japan, we went to Oga station by ‘Namahage Shuttle’, the shared taxi. The taxi stand…

Akita

About Namahage

[ Sept.2018 ] The strong typhoon passed during the night and the next morning in Sakata in the Yamagata prefecture in Japan was fine. We got up early and took the 7:55am train to Akita. This…

Yamagata

The Japanese Women in the Past Were Very Strong

[ Sept.2018 ] We moved from Murakami in the Niigata prefecture to Sakata in the Yamagata prefecture in Japan by express train. The train went along the coast and we saw simple fishing villages on the way,…

Chiba

Visit a shrine and walk in Ueno

[Jan.2018] We went to a Shinto shrine called Shinmeisha in the city of Kashiwa in Chiba prefecture, with my family. It is customary in Japan to visit a shrine on New Year’s Day . We…

Enoshima

Mt. Fuji from Enoshima

[ Jan.2018 ]  We had an excursion to Enoshima island in Kanagawa prefecture in Japan early in the new year. A friend of us who lives around here took us around. We took Enoden (Enoshima…

Ibaraki

Bungee jumping

[ Dec.2017 ] When we went to Ibaraki prefecture in Japan with my family, we visited Ryujin Big Suspension Bridge in Tokiwa-ota, too. This bridge is only for pedestrians, its length is 375 metres and…