Japan

[April 2012] Just to refuge from the rain we went into a gold leaf craft shop called Hakuza  in Kanazawa, Japan. Here they have a golden storehouse in their courtyard. They sell a lot of…

[April 2012] When we visited Kanazawa, a Japanese old town, unfortunately, meteorological “bomb” was attacking the area, so we got completely soaked. This is a picture taken when the rain was not too bad. The wet…

[April 2012] I wanted to see how they make Kaga Yuzen, a traditional dyeing craft in Kanazawa, Japan, so went to the Chamber of Traditional Industry of Kaga Yuzen . But because it was lunch…

[April, 2011] This is a photo in Fukagawa Edo Museum in Tokyo. They remade houses in Edo era in the museum and people can get in those houses. It was a fun. A woman who loves…

[April, 2011] We travelled in Japan around one month after the earthquake and tsunami, and felt the difficulty of Japanese tourism. Around this Lake Ashi, there were some souvenir shops which seemed soon to be closed…

[April, 2011] I do not know why it has to be the ‘pirates boat’ for the sight seeing boat on Lake Ashi in Hakone, but it seems popular here and has been going for about 60…

[April, 2011] One of the purposes of this holiday was to see cherry blossoms in Japan. But the time when we could get days off easily was after the blossoms’ peak time in Kanto area. But…

[April, 2011] This is a photo of Mt.Fuji from a theme park called Healing Village of Nenba. In one house there, they dress us up with kimono free of charge. I love this kind of things….

[January, 2010] People go to Kyoto to see the old Japan, but there are still some old parts left in Tokyo, too. This is a picture of one old house in Shibamata area. In winter,…