Japan Culture Guide
400 years business
Nihonbashi is a name of old town in Tokyo. It literally means “Japan Bridge”. In the beginning of the Edo era (17th century), Tokugawa...
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Japan Culture Guide
- May 26, 2019
- 1 min
Six old kilns ... History of pottery in Japan
Japan’s ceramics have a long history. Among many types of Japanese ceramics, kilns that started in medieval and has been continuing to...
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Japan Culture Guide
- May 17, 2019
- 1 min
100-year old Western-style brick house is a cultural heritage
Old Furukawa garden, one of the cultural heritage gardens in Tokyo, is a combination of western-style and Japanese-style gardens....
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Japan Culture Guide
- May 9, 2019
- 1 min
Tokyo's 3 largest festivals will come soon!
May and June are Matsuri season in Tokyo. Matsuri, or festivals at Shinto shrines, are held annually by people in the community to...
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Japan Culture Guide
- Apr 30, 2019
- 1 min
Gardening was greatly popular 300 years ago in Japan
As the Edo period (1603-1868) is a peaceful time, there were various unique trends. Gardening is one of them. Various kinds of flowers...
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Japan Culture Guide
- Apr 26, 2019
- 1 min
Nakano, Another Holy Place for Manga freaks
Akihabara is a famous spot for anime & manga geeks, but do you know that there is another “Holy Place” for these freaks? That is Nakano,...
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Japan Culture Guide
- Apr 13, 2019
- 1 min
Expensive or cheap? Looking down the street costs Yen300
The “scramble crossing”, or Barnes Dance in English, in Shibuya has become one of the top tourist spots in Tokyo. A lot of tourists come...
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Japan Culture Guide
- Apr 6, 2019
- 1 min
Japanese calendar changes from Heisei to Reiwa
The Imperial Palace Inui street is open to public twice a year, cherry blossoms season and autumn leaves season for 9 days each. The...
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Japan Culture Guide
- Apr 1, 2019
- 1 min
One Noh mask presents various face expressions
Noh is one of the Japanese traditional performing dramatic arts with more than 500 years history. Noh stage sized 5.5meters square, where...
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Japan Culture Guide
- Mar 26, 2019
- 1 min
Weeping cherry shows dignity
There are a lot of kinds of cherry blossoms other than Someiyoshino, or the most typical cherry blossoms trees in Japan. This very famous...
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Japan Culture Guide
- Mar 22, 2019
- 1 min
Need to wait for a day or two?
Spring has come to Tokyo! The day temperature reached 20 degrees Centigrade for the last few days. Today I went to Chidori-ga-fuchi near...
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Japan Culture Guide
- Mar 13, 2019
- 1 min
Cherry blossoms season is just around the corner!
According to the latest cherry blossom forecast, it will start blooming on Mar/21 in Tokyo, but it might be earlier because it is warmer...
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Japan Culture Guide
- Mar 3, 2019
- 1 min
Tokyo marathon 2019 under the rain
Today, March 3rd is a day of Tokyo marathon, one of the largest runners’ race in Japan. The number of participants exceeds 35,000....
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Japan Culture Guide
- Feb 18, 2019
- 1 min
The snow melts and the plant shows its face! - Usui
February 19 is Usui among 24 seasons of the lunar calendar. Usui literally means “rain and water”, which indicates that precipitation...
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Japan Culture Guide
- Feb 15, 2019
- 1 min
Fight between Tokyo and Osaka on sakura-mochi
Though it is still cold outside, weather forecast says it will be warmer next week heading for spring. Spring is a cherry blossoms season...
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Japan Culture Guide
- Feb 7, 2019
- 1 min
Belly band for trees?
Yesterday I went to Koishikawa-korakuen, a reputable Japanese garden near my home, and found as if all trees wear belly bands as seen in...
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Japan Culture Guide
- Feb 4, 2019
- 1 min
Shunsetsu, or Lunar New Year is found in Chinatowns in Japan
As Setsubun is a separation between winter and spring in agricultural calendar, a New Year Day comes soon after Setsubun, it is today...
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Japan Culture Guide
- Feb 2, 2019
- 1 min
Setsubun – the strangest Japanese event ever
Setsubun is a seasonal event on Feb/3, where people shout something out and throw away soybeans from the house. Many temples and shrines...
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Japan Culture Guide
- Jan 31, 2019
- 1 min
Tanada – Changing from a rice production to tourist spot
Tanada, or rice terraces, is a paddy field on a steep, narrow land. As Japan is a mountainous country and flat land suited for rice...
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Japan Culture Guide
- Jan 25, 2019
- 1 min
Visible small white architecture? That is most western lighthouse in Japan.
The most western human-living land that belongs to mainland Japan (except Okinawa islands) is Goto archipelago, Nagasaki prefecture....
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