Hitachi Seaside Park
I started my day trip to Ibaraki Prefecture with a visit to the Hitachi Seaside Park. Depending on the season,
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Parks & Gardens
Komazawa Park
Komazawa Park is a park near Komazawa University in the Setagaya Ward of Tokyo. I recently moved near the park
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Marronnier Park in Seoul
Marronnier Park is a popular meeting point in the Daehangno neighborhood of Seoul. Daehangno is the theater district with over 100 mostly smaller theaters showing performances and plays of all kinds every day.
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Iris Flowers at the Meiji Shrine Inner Garden
On a lighter note, I managed to visit the inner garden of the Meiji Shrine yesterday. Most of the events
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Seoul Dream Forest in Winter
Seoul is not a green city, even when compared to Tokyo which actually offers many more parks (that often serve as evacuation areas too). Seoul Dream Forest is one of the big parks of Seoul and one of the locations of popular Korean drama Iris.
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Ohori Park in Fukuoka
Ohori Park is a western-style park in Fukuoka which contains a lake, a Japanese garden and an art museum. It’s very accessible by public transport and one of Fukuoka’s popular cherry blossom spots.
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Osaka Expo Park
Expo 1970 was held in Osaka. At that time, Japan’s economic growth skyrocketed. That was twenty years before the “bubble”
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Kokubunji – Tonogayato Garden (Tonogayato Teien)
Making a stopover before heading to the Hachioji Matsuri for the second time, I visited Tonogayato Garden in Kokubunji. Kokubunji
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Aokigahara – Hiking in the “Suicide Forest”
Aokigahara – also known as the Sea of Trees – is a 35 km2 forest which is so dense and
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Todoroki Valley
Just leaving the train station and looking around, many places seem to look the same. But Tokyo is full of
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Oncheoncheon Citizen’s Park in Busan
On my way to Beomeosa Temple, I made a stopover at Myeongnyun-dong Station. There is a stream beneath the station which is the Oncheoncheon.
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