The Edo-Tokyo Museum: The 400-Year History of Tokyo
The Edo-Tokyo Museum (江戸東京博物館) is a museum about the 400-year history of the city of Edo-Tokyo since Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu declared Edo his capital of united Japan.
Read moreThe Edo-Tokyo Museum (江戸東京博物館) is a museum about the 400-year history of the city of Edo-Tokyo since Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu declared Edo his capital of united Japan.
Read moreNaoshima is known as the “art island” and has several art museums with exhibits by various well-known artists. The island is also well prepared for tourists with a shuttle bus connecting the various art sites and the port.
Read moreThe 23rd James Bond is out and again is not set in Naoshima. Naoshima is a small Japanese island between Honshu and Shikoku and is known for its art museums. One museum is dedicated to the James Bond novel “The Man with the Red Tattoo” by Robert Benson.
Read moreThere are not many reasons to visit Saitama for sightseeing and one of my class mates – who is from Saitama City – couldn’t even name one. Actually there were two sights in Saitama. One is the railway museum which used to be in Akihabara and the other was the John Lennon Museum.
Read moreChocolate (or cocoa) is produced since thousands of years. It has been used in religious events, as a currency and
Read moreSapporo is a young city by Japanese standards and that’s why the Sapporo Clock Tower which was built in 1878
Read moreEnergy companies along with financial institutes and insure companies have probably a worse public image. TEPCO is no exception –
Read moreA visit to the Mokin Museum in Insadong, Seoul is the perfect complement to the Chicken Art Museum. Mokins are wooden figures used to decorate funeral carriages.
Read moreWhen I first visited Seoul, I more or less aimlessly wandered around and somehow reached the Seoul Museum of History but didn’t go inside it. If you know your way around, you can cover many museums and other attractions on foot.
Read moreOne of the strangest museums I’ve come across so far in Seoul is the Museum of Chicken Art. I don’t doubt that Koreans appreciate chickens – especially as part of BBQ, but apparently the animal plays a huge role in Korean traditions.
Read moreYokohama was the second city besides Tokyo that I visited when I first came to Japan and back then I
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