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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If you are in Tokyo now, the biggest festival to see is the Mitama Matsuri at Yasukuni Shrine held until
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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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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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The Baccarat Eternal Lights is an annual illumination festival at the Yebisu Garden Place. The Garden Place can be reached
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This holiday I try to visit as many illumination festivals as possible and the Sapporo White Illumination Festival was first
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