Like this post? Help us by sharing it! If you’ve spent any time in Japan, you know it can be quite a bewitching place. The delicious food. The quiet shrines. The peaceful gardens. For some, that is enough. Their time in Nippon goes by in a flash and they leave with cherished memories. For others, they […]
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Hanko stamp being stamped out
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! For those of you have lived or been to Japan, you may have noticed the little red stamps called ‘hanko’. One of the first things I had to do when moving to Japan back in 1999 was to go and get myself an official ‘hanko’. For all […]
Cute Cultural Corona Communication
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! We are all going through the coronavirus in some shape or form, and governments around the world are taking action in some way and giving differing messages, in order to halt the spread of the virus. In Japan, perhaps due to the use of masks in everyday […]
The Mystic Onsen of Kinosaki
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! What’s better than taking a dip in an onsen? Taking a dip in seven mystical onsen. Like this post? Help us by sharing it!
The early cherry blossom report for 2020 has arrived…
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! The worst of winter is (with any luck) done. Our evenings and mornings are slowly getting lighter once more, and it’s not too long until winter slopes off for another year and spring comes bounding to the fore. And spring, of course, means lots of lovely cherry […]
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! The worst of winter is (with any luck) done. Our evenings and mornings are slowly getting lighter once more, and it’s not too long until winter slopes off for another year and spring comes bounding to the fore. And spring, of course, means lots of lovely cherry […]