Summer is not over yet. Taking a trip, 6 hour flight from Tokyo is your destination, Honolulu. Nice blue skies with beautiful sunsets around 19:00. Occasionally when there are mountain showers you can enjoy the rainbow. There are many venues to visit but the one I recommend is the Barefoot Cafe by Queen beach near […]
Come to the Hawaiian Island of Oahu. If you still have not taken your summer vacation, fly to the Hawaiian Island to Oahu and enjoy Honolulu. It’s not all tourist beaches like Waikiki or the North Shore. There are many quiet beautiful beaches just several minutes away. The beautiful setting of Hunakai Beach in the […]
Summer is surely here in Japan, with the humid and scorching weather. Store front people sprinkling water in the morning to cool the street or road in front of their shops. People cutting the beautiful Japanese seedless watermelons to clinch their thirst. Summer festivals sponsored by the local temples and shrines. Morning glory plants and […]
Tanabata or the Star Festival, celebrated every year in Japan on two different dates. July 7th in the Kanto area which is the Tokyo area and on August 6-8 in Sendai. Difference is that Tokyo celebrate on the seventh month, seventh day. Sendai is align with the lunar calendar. Adults along with children celebrate, writing […]
Coming to Japan, the best way to see and feel the place is traveling by public transportation. The subways, trains, trolley ( trams), ferry and the taxis. All very easy to travel on and much of the directions written in English. Yes , we still have the trolley, before and after the war, they ran […]
Step outside of your comfort zone and travel to Yokohama Chinatown (Motomachi Chukagai) only 30 minutes away from downtown Shibuya. Great for shopping but the best is the food. From Shoronpo (dumplings) to noodles and even Peking Duck you can have right there every kind of Chinese food you desire. Either be Cantonese, Shanghai, Peking […]
Have you come across a traditional sake shop on one of your walks around town? There are the modern liquor shops that carry all types of alcoholic beverages and there are the traditional sake shops that only carry many brands of sake plus possibly wine and beer. In the years past, in Japan a traditional […]
Cherry blossom viewing is almost over in the Kanto area with many viewers trying the catch the last full bloom trees. You will be able to get more viewings in the next couple of weeks in Aomori and Hokkaido possibly during Golden Week. Rest assure you can also take in the beautiful Wisteria trellis ( […]
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The Tokyo weather department has finally declared on March 24 at 14:00 from Yasukuni Shrine where the designated tree for the declaration of the beginning of the Cherry Blossom Season. Yes, Spring has finally arrived with the cherry blossoms painting the entire Tokyo area PINK! Learned a little something about cherry trees. Did you know […]