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Culture The Legends of Sakura Elena Lisina For the Japanese, blooming sakura represesnts the transience and fragility of life. A person lives his life in the same way a...
Culture Floating Flowers: Latest 3D Garden Exhibition From TeamLab Planets Caleb Cello Located in Toyosu, Tokyo Japan, this one-of-a-kind museum offers a whole new world for visitors with its vibrant water, garde...
Culture Saimyoji Temple Elizabeth S Saimyoji, Mashiko's Shingon Buddhist temple, replete with heritage structures, is one of the oldest in east Japan. It's also ...
Culture Blades of Shinanomachi Nathan Eden I visited a knife and blade maker in Shinanomachi to see how he forges his traditional craft's products. It was both fascinat...
Culture Nippo Coast Rock Oyster Festival 2024 Kim Now in its 6th year, the Nippo Coast Rock Oyster Festival celebrates this revered local delicacy, with several different rest...
Culture Pinwheels at Kawagoe Hikawa Shrine 2024 Lynda Hogan The wind chimes at Kawagoe Hikawa Shrine are known far and wide, but for the month before the illustrious wind chime event, y...
Culture Saitama City's Iwatsuki Ningyo Museum Elizabeth S Iwatsuki Ward in Saitama City is famed for generations of doll artisans and showrooms full of dolls of all kinds and their ac...
Culture Hino City - Museums & Galleries Sleiman Azizi As a bedroom community for central Tokyo, Hino City surprises with its Shinsengumi samurai police force heritagey. This small...
Culture Kanazawa's Noh Museum Peter Sidell In Kanazawa in Japan's Ishikawa prefecture, the Noh Museum is what it sounds like. You can see masks and costumes used in per...