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Places in Japan: One Fantastic Day in Historic Takayama
Reesan from loneleeplanet has started up a new blogging festival called J-Festa to showcase the best of Japan, and this month’s theme is “Places in Japan.” I thought I would use the opportunity to feature a place that I visited … Continue reading
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Tagged architecture, arts, asia, crafts, culture, festival, food, gifu, hida, history, j-festa, japan, market, matsuri, museum, nikko, photography, pictures, postaweek2011, sightseeing, summer, takayama, temple, travel, travel photo thursday, yakiniku
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Dreaming of Spring: Children’s Day and Koinobori
I’m getting a little tired of the winter weather here in Tokyo, so since this month’s Japan Blog Matsuri (graciously hosted by loneleeplanet) is themed “famous Japanese events”, I thought I would choose a slightly warmer topic to muse about. … Continue reading
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Tagged blogcarnival, culture, festival, history, holiday, japan, japanblogmatsuri, jbmatsuri, koi, koinobori, matsuri, photography, pictures, postaweek2011, traditions, travel
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Wordless Wednesday #2: Temple of Snow, Sapporo
Gigantic Replica of Nara’s Horyu-ji Temple, Odori Park, 2006 Sapporo Snow Festival In honor of the 62nd annual Sapporo Snow Festival, which kicked off on Monday. More pictures My original post about the festival
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Tagged art, culture, festival, japan, nature, photography, pictures, postaweek2011, sapporo, sculpture, snow, travel, wordless wednesday
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Yokohama Port Opening Festival and Ocean Day
Yesterday, I attended the annual festival commemorating the port opening of Yokohama. 6,000 fireworks were released over the course of an hour and 10 minutes, which made for a pretty good show. My school hosted a party for its students, … Continue reading
Omi Shrine Festival
So, I promised that I’d post pics from the snippet of the Omi Shrine Festival that I caught this weekend, after my triumphant return from Okinawa. There were apparently a lot of costumes and a parade, but I just saw … Continue reading
Sapporo Snow Festival
So, despite a long workweek, Rosalind and I flew off to Sapporo on Friday for the 57th Annual Sapporo Snow Festival. The flight from Niigata to Hokkaido took a mere hour and after a subsequent train and bus, we met … Continue reading
The Big Snake Festival
Click here to view more photos Originally uploaded by kristi-san. Yesterday, the JET crowd hit up yet another local summer festival. This time it was the “big snake” festival out in Shitada, a fairly small city about 40 minutes away … Continue reading
Sado Earth Celebration 2005
On Friday, I went over to Sado Island for the annual Earth Celebration Festival with Aaron, Grace, and some of the other ALTs. We drove down to Joetsu and took a ferry to Ogi to see the Friday night concert. … Continue reading
Kamo Festival!
Today was the Kamo Festival, which meant lots of fun for the new Kamo ALTs! Rosalind and I started off with lunch at Pinokio’s and a walk by the river with Grace. In the evening, we were dressed in yukata … Continue reading
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Yahiko Mountain and Nagaoka Fireworks
Took the day off work yesterday to do a little bit of sightseeing around Niigata. Julia and Yamaya-san (the giver of the car) took me to practice driving and showed me the routes to the other three junior highs I … Continue reading