[ May 2015 ] My family took us to a theme park called “Warp Station Edo” in the Ibaraki prefecture. It is a park where a town in the Edo era (1603 – 1868) is…

[ May, 2015 ] I thought Shimbashi in Tokyo, Japan, had completely changed, because the last few times I met with my friends at the Shiodome side of the station, which has been redeveloped, it looked…

In the morning of the last day of our stay in Taiwan, we went to Guanghua Jade Market before the guide came to pick us up for the airport. In fact this was the main…

[ May, 2015 ] After the theatre, we went to a massage salon in Taipei. A massage is one of the things to do in Taiwan and the reflexology is especially well regarded there. I…

[ May, 2015 ] Our family holiday in Taiwan was very short, only two nights, so the schedule was very tight. On the second night, after dinner, we went to see a Peking Opera in a…

[ May, 2015 ] The last place we went to on the tour out of Taipei in Taiwan was Jingtong. This is the last stop of Pingxi Line, which we took up to Shifen. The…

[ May, 2015 ] Another attraction in Shifen is the “Shifen Waterfall”. We had to get off the car and walk down the long staircase. This route is in the middle of a thick forest….

[ May, 2015 ] The main attraction in Shifen in Taiwan is to fly sky lanterns. This is a kind of hot air balloon made of paper. People write their wishes on it and let…

[ May, 2015 ] From Jiufen in Taiwan, we took a local train to Shifen. We pushed our way onto the train at Ruifeng station, because we had learned that there were no reservations and…