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A Japanese Song per Day: Seira - Love letter no kawari ni kono uta wo
Seira - Love letter no kawari ni kono uta wo:
Japanese superlatives, Totekiko, the smallest Japanese Zen rock garden
Generally, the Japanese Zen gardens are small, covering just dozens of square meters. The reason is that the viewer must be able to see the entire garden, to understand the symbolic meanings. Some of them are very small, just a few square meters… but...
A Japanese Song per Day: The Scanty - I Love You
The Scanty - I ♥ U:
Cute Jizo Gashapon Machine
Gashapon (or gachapon) is a brand, owned by the famous company Bandai, referring to capsule toys, but also to the capsule vending machines. The name comes from two onomatopoeia, gasha and pon, sounds made by the capsule while going through the vendin...
A Japanese Song per Day: Taja - Love Today
Taja - Love Today:
Japanese spiritual architecture, Prince Shotoku Hall
Prince Shōtoku is known in the history of Japan as the father of Japanese Buddhism. He established the Shitennoji Temple from Osaka, which is known as the oldest officially administered temple in Japan.
Prince Shōtoku is also the author of the Sevent...
A Japanese Song per Day: cellen - Goodbye
My most recent discovery, the singer and songwriter cellen a.k.a Takuya Murase. Enjoy!
Mamemaki, the bean throwing festival, in a Tokyo Metro mosaic
In Japan, Setsubun is the day before risshun, the beginning of spring in the Japanese lunar calendar. In this day (February 3rd in 2012) takes place the tradition of Mamemaki (bean throwing), a ritual to chase away bad spirits and bad luck. Like many...
A Japanese Song per Day: Furil - Sweet Little Love
Furil - Sweet Little Love:
Yokohama Cosmo Clock 21 blue color night view
One of my favorite subjects for long exposure night time photography is the Ferris wheel. While the wheel is moving, the colors are often changing and its quite hard to choose the right moment to start the exposure. It’s like a game, sitting with the...
A Japanese Song per Day: B'z - Love Phantom
B’z - Love Phantom:
Itsukushima Shrine Torii at low tide
The Itsukushima Shrine’s Otorii (Grand Gate) from the Miyajima Island is probably the most famous torii from Japan. It is so famous that there is a high probability that an image featuring this torii was among the very first Japanese pictures you eve...
A Japanese Song per Day: Nanase Aikawa - Shock of Love
Nanase Aikawa - Shock of Love:
Reflections in the rain at Umeda Sky Building
I have to confess that until now I planned all my trips to Japan to avoid the rainy seasons. However, from time to time I still got caught in the rain and… I always enjoyed it. The rain is often a great opportunity for photos, sometimes the colors lo...
A Japanese Song per Day: D - Love Means Sacrifice
D - Love Means Sacrifice:
The eucalyptus that survived the atomic bomb
I learned a long time ago about the survivor trees from Hiroshima (called hibaku jumoku in Japanese), the trees that survived the atomic explosion, holly trees, silent witnesses of a horrific event that should never repeat…
Here is one of the hibaku...
A Japanese Song per Day: Koda Kumi - This is not a love song
Koda Kumi - This is not a love song:
Roboroborobo
The Roppongi Hills Mori Tower observatory is one of the must see places in Tokyo, the view is magnificent in every season and during any moment of the day. But, there are many other attractions in Roppongi Hills and if you’re interested in public art...
A Japanese Song per Day: T.M.Revolution - Love Saver
T.M.Revolution - Love Saver:
Old Japanese Stories, the legend of Fushimi Inari Taisha
The Japanese traditional culture is extremely rich in stories and legends passed from generation to generation. When you visit the Japanese temples, shrines or monuments, look for the explanatory plaques, some of them are also in English and you will...
A Japanese Song per Day: Aqua5 - Aqua Feel, Aqua Soul
Aqua5 - Aqua Feel, Aqua Soul:
Zojo-ji and Tokyo Tower dusk view
Zojo-ji Temple, one of the most important temples from Tokyo, was established in 1393, but it was moved to its present location only in 1598, at the orders of Tokugawa Ieyasu. After Tokugawa became a shogun, Zojo-ji became the temple of the Tokugawa...
A Japanese Song per Day: Miyavi - Selfish love
Miyavi - Selfish love:
A shard of paradise in Ueno
It would be wrong for me to recommend for the first time visitors in Japan some unknown temple or shrine, located far from the main routes. During your first visit you should go to famous places, because there are so many great things to see in the...
A Japanese Song per Day: Yutaka Ozaki - I Love You
Yutaka Ozaki - I Love You:
Nagoya Castle, birds-eye view and a travel tip
Built at the orders of shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu, the Nagoya Castle was located in a strategic place, to stop the attacks coming from Osaka. The castle was finished in 1612 while the adjacent Hommaru Palace was completed three years later, in 1615. In 1...
A Japanese Song per Day: Fukui Yukari - Rain of Love
Fukui Yukari - Rain of Love:
Yurakucho, a wide-angle street view and a bit of history
Located between Ginza and Hibiya, Yūrakuchō is one of the oldest neighborhoods of Tokyo. A little known fact is that Yūrakuchō developed around the mansion of Oda Nagamasu, the younger brother of the famous Oda Nobunaga, who was authorized by the sho...
A Japanese Song per Day: Predawn - Suddenly
Predawn - Suddenly:
Japanese garden landscape - lantern and teahouse in Hikone Genkyu-en
The Hikone castle was finished in 1622 and 55 years later, Ii Naooki, the fourth lord of Hikone, built near the castle the Genkyu-en garden, inspired by the garden of the detached palace of the Chinese Emperor Xuanzong of Tang. Genkyu-en is a landsca...
A Japanese Song per Day: LITE - Image Game
LITE - Image Game:
Hello Kitty Hato Bus and a travel tip
As you probably noticed, I always plan my own trips, with maps, events, attractions, transportation, accommodation, etc. So, I don’t go on organized tours… but last year in Kobe, forced by a huge incoming storm, I took a sightseeing bus and made an u...
A Japanese Song per Day: SEBASTIAN X - Take me to the end of the world!
SEBASTIAN X - Take me to the end of the world!:
Japanese crowd on Nakamise-dori
Nakamise-dori, the 250 meters long street in front of the Senso-ji complex from Asakusa, Tokyo, is one of the oldest commercial venues from Japan, established around the year 1700. Destroyed many times during history, it was always rebuilt (last time...
A Japanese Song per Day: Nightmare - Naked Love
Nightmare - Naked Love.
Romantic evenings in Kyoto
There are so many places to spend an evening in Kyoto… Most tourists choose to go to Gion, the famous geisha district, especially on Hanami-koji-dori or on Shirakawa-minami-dori… and there are many other great options.
My favorite place for a romant...




