Mashiko Pottery Festival
Mashiko in Tochigi Prefecture is famous for its potteries and many people who live there have something to with pottery.
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journeys in japan
Chiba City – The two-dimensional building
Chiba City is not a tourist destination. Despite being the home of about 960000 people, it’s not well known for its sights. Chiba also has very little to do with the Chiba described in William Gibson’s cyberpunk novel Neuromancer.
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Day trip to Hakone: Brass Bands & old Pachinko
A Travel Meet-up makes perfect sense, because you can do various day trips starting from Tokyo. Today’s destination was Hakone,
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Sakura City: A Dutch windmill in Japan
There is only one way to see Sakura outside the sakura season and that is of course by going to
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Nokogiriyama Hiking (part 2)
We walked a short while until we reached the rope way. This must have been a busy day because besides our little group there were lots of Japanese who just couldn’t wait for the next one.
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Nokogiriyama Hiking (part 1)
I’m not really a hiking person but I quickly joined the trip offered by Sakura House. This company offers apartment, guesthouses and dormitories to foreigners. They also have special events from time to time.
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Atami: Beach and Mountain
Sometimes I do travel without a fixed plan, just looking at the train/subway map and asking myself “I wonder what’s near station X?” With the JR Rail Pass, it’s included anyway, so I took a train to Atami which was the last stop of the train.
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