Tokyo German Village is a park in Chiba, located about two hours from central Tokyo. The park offers facilities for families, flower events, a souvenir shop and German food. It’s not an educational place meant to teach you German – in many ways it’s very much a Japanese park.
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Talking about Japanese towns with great Buddha statues, one would likely mention Nara or Kamakura. But the Ushiku Daibutsu dwarves
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One of the great features of many Japanese trains is that the seats always face the driving direction. Personally I’m fine sitting in the opposite direction because I’m usually sleeping anyway. Some trains turn the seats automatically after they’ve reached their final stop, in others it’s done manually. I recorded this video of the NEX, JR East’s airport train.
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The Shinkansen bullet-train is one of the trademarks of Japan, yet, there’s no Shinkansen on Hokkaido. Routes have been proposed
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There is one other city in Hokkaido I visited during this trip to Japan: Otaru. Otaru is close to Sapporo
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This is maybe the biggest iris flower festival in the Kanto region and it involved a longer train ride via
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Some places I only visit because I find their name particularly interesting. “Reading” near London is an example, “Naganuma Park”
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Ice sculptures in Summer and outside? In Japan, this doesn’t seem too unusual. I’ve seen an ice sculpture exhibition near
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Just leaving the train station and looking around, many places seem to look the same. But Tokyo is full of
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Hamelin was for a long time on my list for potential day trips from Hamburg, so today I could scratch
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Impressions of Germany, covered in snow during a train trip to Hameln (Hamelin)
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