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Ibaraki

Frozen scene

[ Dec.2017 ] We went to Fukuroda in Ibaraki prefecture in Japan with my family. Of course our main destination was the famous waterfall there. I did not know, but according to a man in…

Nagano

Snow Monkeys

[ Dec.2017 ] We went to see Snow Monkeys in Jigogudani Monkey Park in Nagano prefecture in Japan. I had thought they were called Onsen (hot spring) Monkeys, but in fact they are famous as…

Nagano

The scene on the train and about the Ryokan

[ Dec.2017 ] We went to Jigokudani in Nagano prefecture in Japan to see Japanese Monkeys. First, we took the Shinkansen, the bullet train, to Nagano station. Then we changed to Nagano Electric Railway to…

Tokyo

Very interesting Chicken stew restaurant

[ Dec.2017 ] On the day our friend took us around in Tokyo, the weather was very good and the sunset was beautiful. We saw the sunset on the rooftop of GINZA SIX, the new…

Tokyo

A sunny day in Tokyo

[ Dec.2017 ] We spent our Christmas and New Year holiday in Japan. A friend of ours organised a day in Tokyo for us. We met her in the Asakusa Culture Tourist Information Center in…

Abruzzo

Skewered mutton and small pizza

[ Nov.2017 ] The last meal we had in Abruzzo in the middle of Italy was skewered mutton. As you can see from the photo above, they looked like Japanese yakitori, but they were not…

Abruzzo

Visiting a winery

[ Nov.2017 ] We saw and tasted a lot of things in our short holiday in Abruzzo in the middle of Italy, but now it was coming to the end. On this day, we went…