Honestly, the sand sculptures themselves were just so-so. I got tired after looking around for a while and was taking a break in the area with the food stalls and souvenir shops, when all of a sudden a troupe …
April was so busy that after I got back from Kyoto I didn’t go anywhere and just worked. Then one day a friend asked if I wanted to go see some sculptures made of sand, so off we went. On the way we sto…
Since hanami was one of the three goals of this trip (the other two being good food and going somewhere I’d never been), here are some cherry blossom photos. The sky was dark, so only a handful came out …
After a slightly disappointing meal, the first place I headed to was the two Hongan-ji temples. Two famous temples, Nishi Hongan-ji and Higashi Hongan-ji, stand not far from the station. They’re easy to …
The Kobe posts are finally nearing the end… I only have about two months’ worth of posts left to put up -_-;; And yet I’m barely halfway through, so at this pace who knows when I’ll eve…
Walking along the Ijinkan street, I spotted a sign like this. Apparently it’s Sherlock Holmes’s room, shown to the public for the first time in Japan. As a Sherlock Holmes fan, there was no way …
One day in February, with the weather warming up a bit, I took a quick trip to Kobe. Strolling through cute, stylish streets and indulging in sweets would surely blow away all the stress piled up from overwork…
The garden at the Adachi Museum of Art, which an American garden magazine picks as the best garden in the world every year, is said to look its finest after a snowfall, so this winter I made up my mind and wen…
Empas Blog, which I liked for being nice and quiet, is apparently shutting down at the end of February, so if I just leave things as they are, everything I’ve posted so far might vanish. Some people seem…
In Japan, lots of shops sell something called fukubukuro at the start of the year, which you could translate as “lucky bags.” They stuff a paper bag with all kinds of things and sell it for around …
Todaiji I was dying to know what the Great Buddha inside would look like. The walk in… The Nio guardian at the entrance It’s one of those giant guardian figures I’d seen so often in manga…
Even though it isn’t far from Osaka, for some reason I’d never been to Nara until now. I wasn’t all that interested, to be honest. This time I got the chance to look around. Seeing it in pers…