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Parks & Gardens 

Hitachi Seaside Park

20. August 20127. February 2021 Mia Jaap 0 Comments ibaraki

I started my day trip to Ibaraki Prefecture with a visit to the Hitachi Seaside Park. Depending on the season,

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Komazawa Park

14. July 20127. February 2021 Mia Jaap 0 Comments setagaya

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

6. December 201123. May 2022 Mia Jaap 0 Comments seoul, video

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

19. June 201121. February 2021 Mia Jaap 0 Comments flower, harajuku, iris

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

22. January 201123. May 2022 Mia Jaap 0 Comments forest, seoul

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

1. October 201014. October 2021 Mia Jaap 0 Comments 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

30. September 20102. November 2021 Mia Jaap 0 Comments kansai, osaka

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)

7. August 201026. February 2021 Mia Jaap 0 Comments kokubunji

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”

17. July 20102. November 2021 Mia Jaap 0 Comments aokigahara, hiking, toy camera

Aokigahara – also known as the Sea of Trees – is a 35 km2 forest which is so dense and

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Todoroki Valley

27. May 201027. February 2021 Mia Jaap 0 Comments todoroki

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

28. May 200923. May 2022 Mia Jaap 0 Comments 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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Takehara – a beautiful town near Hiroshima
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Takehara – a beautiful town near Hiroshima

4. October 20192. November 2021 Mia Jaap 0

If Kawagoe is Tokyo’s Little Edo, Takehara is Hiroshima’s Little Kyoto. In this case though, it’s the town’s tourist department that calls Takehara the „Little Kyoto of Aki Province“.

Okunoshima – Japan’s Bunny Island
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Okunoshima – Japan’s Bunny Island

29. October 201523. May 2022 Mia Jaap 0
Inakadate Rice Paddy Art 2015: Star Wars & Gone With The Wind
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Inakadate Rice Paddy Art 2015: Star Wars & Gone With The Wind

8. September 20156. November 2021 Mia Jaap 3
Visiting Tokyo’s Giant Tunnel System – Water Discharge Tunnel
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Visiting Tokyo’s Giant Tunnel System – Water Discharge Tunnel

4. November 20122. November 2021 Mia Jaap 1
Ushiku: Great Buddha and Fireworks
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Ushiku: Great Buddha and Fireworks

22. August 201216. November 2021 Mia Jaap 0

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