Japan

[ 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…

[ 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…

[ 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…

[ Apr.2017 ] At the beginning of Golden Week ( from the last few days of April to early May with 4 national holidays in between in Japan), we went to Hitachi Seaside Park in…

[ Apr.2017 ] We had a walk in Asakusa in Tokyo with our friends in London because they happened to be in Japan at the same time as us. The wife of the couple was…

[ Apr.2017 ] On the last day of our family holiday in the north of Japan, we came back to Morioka City and went to see the cherry blossoms. In Kanto area where Tokyo is,…

[ Apr.2017 ] My mother loves amber. That is why we went to Gdansk in Poland together last year, but she had not been to Kuji, the most famous Japanese city for amber production, so…

[ Apr.2017 ]  The main purpose of our travel to Iwate Prefecture in Japan was to see the snow wall. My Japanese family already went and saw it a few years ago and had a…

[ Apr.2017 ] The day after coming back from Ishigaki Island in Okinawa, Japan where it was already as hot as mid summer, we went to the north of the country with my family. We…