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Cherry Blossom Festival in Hamburg

20. June 20122. November 2021 Mia Jaap 0 Comments hamburg, kirschblüte

If you can’t make it to the cherry blossoms in Japan, why not go to a Japan festival in your

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Beatlemania & The John Lennon Museum

8. June 201213. October 2021 Mia Jaap 0 Comments hamburg

There 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.

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Christmas tree
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Christmas 2009

28. December 20092. November 2021 Mia Jaap 0 Comments christmas, hamburg, video

These past days I’ve been doing quite a lot of video editing. Just like “Hamburg in Snow”, this one was

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Snow in Hamburg
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Hamburg in Snow

24. December 200913. October 2021 Mia Jaap 0 Comments hamburg, snow, video, winter

It doesn’t snow often in Hamburg in December, but this month has been exceptional and I’m happy to be in Germany at this time. Honestly, many cities which I would call “summer cities” because they are not an exciting sight during the winter time, are now worth a day trip.

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Revisiting my school: Long long time ago…

5. September 200814. March 2021 Mia Jaap 0 Comments hamburg

…I went to high school here in Hamburg. It’s the Heinrich Hertz School (HHS), named after the famous physicist. I

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Goodbye to the VHS

26. March 20073. March 2021 Mia Jaap 0 Comments hamburg

Has it really been two years since I started learning Japanese at the VHS? Looking back, I guess it would

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Hamburger Kunsthalle

18. March 20075. November 2021 Mia Jaap 0 Comments art, hamburg

Originally we thought about driving to Berlin but I had to finish a few articles so we decided on the Hamburger Kunsthalle instead, an art museum situated near Hamburg’s central station.

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Nippon hour

19. February 20073. March 2021 Mia Jaap 0 Comments hamburg

One single hour full of Japanese language training: As usual it was time for language lessons with my sensei. She

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The Queen was not amused

22. January 20079. March 2021 Mia Jaap 0 Comments hamburg

Today was movie Monday – it’s been a while since I was in the cinema. So we were going to

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Hamburger Dom

24. November 20062. November 2021 Mia Jaap 0 Comments hamburg

The Hamburger Dom is a funfair held three times each year on Heiligengeistfeld next to the subway station Feldstraße. It

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Japanese Summer Festival 2006 in Hamburg

13. August 20062. November 2021 Mia Jaap 0 Comments hamburg

The Japanese Summer Festival (Japanisches Sommerfest) is a two-day festival held by the Museum für Völkerkunde Hamburg (Museum of Ethnology).

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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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