Akita

At Senshu Park

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

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

A Very Surreal Hot-Spring Ryokan

The next place we visited in the Oga Peninsula in the Akita prefecture in Japan was Oga Aquarium GAO. In fact, the reason we had decided to visit Oga Peninsula was that my…

Akita

About Namahage

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

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,…

Niigata

Ryokan with Sunset and Murakami Kibori Tsuishu

We stayed at the seaside Ryokan (a Japanese style hotel) called ‘Taikanso Senami no Yu’ in Murakami in the Niigata Prefecture in Japan. According to the information on the internet, the hot spring…

Niigata

Salmon in Murakami

Murakami city in the Niigata prefecture in Japan is not huge, with a population of only about 60,000 people, but there are many famous products. One of them is salmon. We visited…