Hello kitty or Pikachu bento box?
Making a basic healthy Japanese bento box for your next lunch is already a creative process but a kyaraben will definitely add a little more fun.
In a kyaraben, the food in your bento can look like cute cartoon characters, animals, or even beautiful plants. Making a kyaraben used to be just a trick to get children excited about eating their bento but it has now turned into an art form where even competitions are held. It’s popularity has actually spread across the globe but there is always room to recruit more kyaraben enthusiasts.
Through our Nagomi Kitchen cooking program, you can learn how to make either a Hello Kitty or Pikachu kyaraben. Please make sure to indicate which kyaraben you would like to make at the time of your booking. You will also learn how to make healthy tofu balls, flowers out of cherry tomatoes, and sunflowers out of small sausages.
Why not have this experience as part of your stay in Japan?
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Loading ...Sho Sakurai , Yuko Oshima to co-star in TV drama “Blackboard”
Arashi’s Sho Sakurai(櫻井翔）,30, and AKB48’s Yuko Oshima(大島優子）,23, will appear together in a television drama for the first time. In April, TBS plans to air a 3-episode miniseries, and Sakurai and Oshima have been cast in the first episode.
The miniseries, titled “Blackboard ~ Jidai to Tatakatta Kyoushitachi~,” revolves around teachers in different time periods having to deal with the problems of that era. For example, the first episode stars Sakurai as Shirahama, a junior high school teacher who taught his students about “dying for your country” during wartime. After later losing his right arm in the war, he returns to teaching but is burdened and conflicted by what he taught his students in the past. Read the rest of this entry »
Talk show&Fashion show featuring Harajuku Fashion will take place on March 4th!!
The group”Everyday tea party”(offical blog http://ameblo.jp/starcrownmake/) holding tea parties for girls who love lolita fashion will have a talk show and fashion show!!In the fashion show,the members from Gothic&Lolita&Punk no kai and Harajuku Fashion Walk will appear!!
Ai and Kumamiki,speakers at the talk show on March 4th
Date and time :March 4th 14:30~
Place:Shichoukaku roomA and B at Tokyo Womens Plaza
〒150-0001 Jinguumae5-53-67,Shibuyaku,Tokyoto
Entrance fee:700yen(ordinarily dressed people)
5ooyen(people in indivisualistic fashion style)
We are very sorry to say that it is up to conducter`s decision whether you could entrance at the price for people in indivisualistic fashion style.
How to take place:Please come directly to the planned place.
Time schedule:14:00 The place will open
14:30 The talk show will start
15:30 Interval
15:40 Questions and answers
16:10 The fashion show will start
16:20 All the programs will end
Speakers at the talk show are Ai and Kumamiki.
Ai(Facebook name:Ai Aisaka)(Twitter:@Ai_glp)(Just started!Feel free to follow!If you couldn`t find,look for Ai in the followers of @GLPnoKai) is the leader of “Gothic & Lolita & Punk no kai”,a fashion club at Waseda University.She organized “Gothic & Lolita & Punk no kai”in 2009 and have held events for students to promote friendship among each other and for ordinary people to get to know Gothic & Lolita & Punk fashion.In the event”Alice in Wasedaland” she conducted, Gothic & Lolita & Punk fashion clothes by Angelic Pretty,Atelier Pierrot,Black Peace Now,PEACE NOW were used in the fashion show and also Nobara Takemoto(the author of “Shimotsuma monogatari”),Kokushokusumire(the musican) were invited as a guest speaker and a performer respectively.
”Gothic&Lolita&Punk no kai” offical website(It has English pages.) http://homepage3.nifty.com/glp/
”Gothic&Lolita&Punk no kai” Twitter(Please feel free to follow!!):@GLPnoKai
Kumamiki(Twitter:@kumamiki) manages her fashion brand “Party Baby” (http://party-baby.com/)and plays an active part as a member of ”Harajuku Fashion Walk”(Twitter:@harajuku_fw) which is an event to launch new cultures and free ideas.Also,she designs costumes, plays a role at shows(for example:6%dokidoki visual show),and crafts art works.
The matters which require attention:
Please refrain from putting bags on the seat, (As the maximum number of the seat is 60.)talking on a cell phone,eating and drinking.
Please fell free to take photos and movies during the event,but when taking a picture of guests coming to the event,please ask them previously.
Please come in real clothes.(No cosplay costumes will be accepted.)
Please bring something to write with.(An easy survey on the event will be conducted.)
If you have any questions,send an e-mail to micaco1129@yahoo.co.jp
For more information,access http://ameblo.jp/starcrownmake/ (Though there are Japanese pages only,the process of the event could be seen with the pictures on it.)
Beautiful sunset into the Sea of Japan is magnificent from your guest room
‘Yubae-no-yado Shiomi-so’ in Senami Onsen Resort, Nigata Prefecture finished its renewal project and opened a new special floor ‘‘The Ocean Club’ and the dinning room ‘Hamanasu’ on March 3, 2011. Read the rest of this entry »
Everyday home cooked meals in Japan
Today I’d like to introduce you the everyday home cooked meals in Japan 
This is the simmered vegetables which called as Nimono（煮物）in Japanese. Simmer carrot, lotus root, “Konnyaku” and any other vegetables with soy sauce, mirin and Sake. Sometime we add the chicken in it as well. The taste of these kind of Nimono depends on each home.
There are many kind of miso soup in Japan. In other words, you can add any ingredients as you like 
And I like clams miso soup very much! Soup stock from clams is really nice, so yummy. Read the rest of this entry »
Our English website has opened!!
We(Gothic&Lolita&Punk no kai) finally made an English version of our website.
Please check it out to see our history and daily activities.
There are a lot of photos too!!
Gothic&Lolita&Punk no kai website address:http://homepage3.nifty.com/glp/
Alice in Wasedaland 2010
Our web site address :http://homepage3.nifty.com/glp/
Variety of trendy bathing facilities are skillfully laid out in each floor
‘Manyo-no-yu’ in New Chitose Airport
| Name: | Manyo-no-yu’, the New Chitose Airport |
| Address: | 4th Floor, The New Chitose Airport Terminal |
| 987-22 Bibi, Chitose City, Hokkaido, 066-0012 JAPAN | |
| Phone: | 0123－46－4126 |
| FAX: | 0123－45－3333 |
| URL: | http://www.manyo.co.jp/chitose/ |
| Total floor space: | 4,773㎡ |
| Onsen sauce: | Natural Onsen sauce in Bunkyo, Chitose City |
| (Sodium chloride-weak alkaline hot spring) | |
| Management: | Maruseppu Kanko Co. |
| Business hours: | 23 hours a day from 10.a.m. throuout the year |
■Floor layout
● 5th Flloor
The day of Azuki bean porridge on the first full moon’s day
Today Jan.15th is a special day called “Shou-shou-gatsu(/The Minor New Year’s Day)”, ”Mochi-no-hi(/望の日)”, a full moon’s day, and used to be the New Year’s Day in the lunar calendaor. And traditionally, it has been customary to eat “Azuki-gayu”( /小豆粥, sweet bean porridge) on this day since around 1200 years ago, for people have believed in the fact that that food contains special secrad power to ward off evil and keep people from suffering every disease.
That idea and custom of dispel evil with the beans were originally introduced from China maybe in early days in Heian Period(794-1192). Azuki sweet beans have color of red or purple, which were believed to have a magic power to repel evil.
On this date, Yoneura-sai(/粥占祭, a festival of fortune-telling using azuki beans) is hosted at a lot of Shinto shrines, where people put rice and azuki in a long bamboo tube and boil them to read outlooks of timing of the prospective paddy harvests of the year as well. In some areas, people also host a festival of tug-of-war between a “land team” and a “sea team” to read if they can enjoy rich field harvests or rich fishey yields in the year.
(1 投票, 平均値/最大値: 5.00 / 5) Loading ...VARIENTINE by Clementine
This is the CD jacket of VARIENTINE by Clementine.
Today let me introduce Bossa version of Japanese music, played in Japanese variety programs. VARIENTINE by a French singer and songwriter, Clementine, was first released in August 2011. Since then, the bossa flavors of Japanese songs, which are familiar to most of us, have comforted and cheered the Japanese.
Clementine was born in Paris and raised in different countries, so her music has been influenced by various local music as well as Bossa Nova; first debued in Paris, and now based in Japan.
The jacket of ANIMENTINE-plus
You should also check out ANIMENTINE(released in July, 2010 ) and ANIMENTINE-plus(released in May, 2011), both of which are Bossa version of Japanese anime songs.
My family and I enjoy both VARIENTINE and ANIMENTINE while driving!
Why don’t you check some? I’m sure you’ll love them!
＊Bossa du SUDARA BUSHI by Clementine
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The world’s first Hello Kitty’s dental clinic open
“Hearts Dental Clinic”(http://www.hearts-dental.jp/), which is featured with Hello Kitty, a worldwide super popular kitty character of Sanrio(http://www.sanrio.co.jp/english/index.html) was open on Jan.10th in Koto ward Tokyo.
The clinic is fully supporetd by Sanrio, and Hello Kitty is adopted as its official mascot. The clinic’s building is coverned with a lot of Hello Kitty’s pictures and its other designs. The clinic has a basic policy of “full of smiles with bright and pleasant atomosphere”, wiping away a generally negative image of scary and bad dental clinics, and had drastically remodelled since last November.
This is the very first clinic with Hello Kitty as its mascot in the world, and plans to host introductory tours on this Jan. 13,14,and 15th.
(1 投票, 平均値/最大値: 5.00 / 5) Loading ...The 2nd “MOE GUEEN” Grand Prix
The 2nd “Moe Queen” contest final was held in Akihabara, the mecca of “Moe”(sprouting passion or stimulus attractiveness of a character) culture on this Jan. 7th. Among the 13 finalists who performed singing, dancing, or other kinds of performances, the Grand Prix was given to “Chiu”, a popular “maid” of Furatto Maid, a Akihabara guide shop. http://f-maid.com/
The primary of the contest whose purpose is to choose “Moe-type cute or beauiful girls” started on Sep.1st 2011 and Chiu says, she is so happy to have achieved such a glorious goal because she had started making intensive efforts for the contest for about two years since the last contest, having been supported by a lot of her fans. Chiu says, “Though I look innocent but actually I like Japanese sake and have tastes of those of middle-age men”.
Chiu was awarded sub-prize money of 100,000 yen and a right to debut as a singer to produce CDs. Takuro Morinaga, a currently famous and popular TV commentator who is known as a enthusiastic figures collector as well, made a remark about her, saying, she is overwhelmingly Akiba-like, and so, she has successfully caught the heart of Akiba-type geeks”.
(2 投票, 平均値/最大値: 5.00 / 5) Loading ...Classical Cafe Cicaro will be open for only one day!!
Classical Cafe Cicaro will be open on February 26th,2012 at Cafe Favorite Piece(http://favoritepiece.com/)
Classical Cafe Cicaro(http://ameblo.jp/cicaro/) is a cafe where everyone could enjoy delicious handmade sweets and tea served by classical maids in original maid costumes.Also,sisters of noblewomen(Mikhail,Himeko,Ai) will welcome you.
This time,the youngest sister Ai would host the tea party!
Everybody will be welcome!
For more information,check Cafe Cicaro web site(http://ameblo.jp/cicaro).
If any questions,feel free to send an e-mail to cafe_cicaro@yahoo.co.jp .
Introductory story of Cafe Cicaro：
One day,sisters of noble birth(Mikhail,Himeko,Ai) were chatting with each other.
“What will us do next? ”
“How about inviting everybody to our tea party?”
“That would be a lot of fun!”
Then,one of them said to their maid,
“Take care of this matter, for we would be busy choosing clothes to wear at the tea party.”
The maid replied“Certainly,my ladies.”
Ai`s tea party at Cafe Cicaro
Ai`s tea party at Cafe Cicaro
Most beautiful Japanese garden: Adachi Museum of Art garden
The U.S. magazine Journal of Japanese Gardening has picked the Adachi Museum of Art garden in Yasugi, Shimane Prefecture, as the best Japanese garden for the ninth consecutive year.
The 165,000-square-meter site housing traditional moss and dry gardens has been selected as 2011′s finest Japanese garden, with specific mention given to its intensive grooming and maintenance efforts and staff attitude.
Takoyaki
Takoyaki is one of my favorite Japanese food and I think a lot of Japanese people like it! It’s a grilled octopus balls.
Mix flour, eggs and water (sometimes use dashi stock) then fry it in the special pan, put the boiled octopus and keep turning them until they are round shapes. Place it on plate, and pour the Takoyaki sauce, mayonnaise, seaweed powder and bonito flakes.
It’s so yummy! I highly recommend you to try it when you are in Japan even if you feel “I don’t want to eat Octopus”
If you go to Osaka, you can easy to find Takoyaki shop and get it approx. 6-8 Takoyaki balls for 500 yen. Read the rest of this entry »
Coming-of-Age Day ceremonies :Tokyo Disneyland&AKB48
New adults attended ceremonies and festive events across Japan on Monday to mark Coming-of-Age Day.
One of the most popular spots was Tokyo Disneyland in Urayasu, Chiba Prefecture, which drew more than 1,200 new adults on Monday. Young Japanese women danced with Mickey and Minnie Mouse, and Pluto and other Disney characters on a stage.
No less than 15 members of idol group AKB48 and four members of the sister group SKE48 also celebrated their coming of age. Atsuko Maeda, Tomomi Itano, Minami Takahashi, and other members of the groups went to Kanda Myojin, the honorary shrine for the nearby Akihabara (Akiba) district, mark the occasion with a ceremony.
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