A (former) foreigner’s district is not the only thing that Hakodate and Yokohama have in common. Both Japanese cities also have red brick warehouses which are used for various shops nowadays.
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Loving Hut is a fast growing vegan food restaurant chain founded by “Supreme Master” Ching Hai. Unlike most restaurant chains,
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Hakodate was the first port to be opened to foreign trade after Japan was forced to give up its isolation.
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Originally, my next stop after Sapporo was supposed to be Aomori, but I switched to Hakodate instead. Hakodate is Hokkaido’s
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Chocolate (or cocoa) is produced since thousands of years. It has been used in religious events, as a currency and
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In my post about the Hello Kitty cafe in Seoul I wrote that in Hello Kitty’s home country, there is
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Sendai was the biggest Japanese city hit by the tsunami and earthquake, although if you walk in the city centre
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The Nagoya Akari Night is held around the iconic Nagoya TV Tower, the oldest tv tower in Japan. The tower is illuminated of course, but they also added some additional lights at the bottom for christmas.
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Unlike most of the other illumination festivals, Lightopia has a very limited run, starting on the 22nd and finishing on
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This illumination festival is a must see if you happen to run a blog that has both “tokyo” and “penguin”
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Time for new Christmas illumination, this time around Yurakucho Station in Tokyo. This is one of the smaller ones, advertised
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