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Trunk toward the unknown – Objet of abstractat Yokohama port

By Tenkaijapan - Last updated: 月曜日, 5月 14, 2012

The object, called “Michi eno Hana (未知への鼻)” ,trunk toward the unknown, was installed at Zo no Hana Park (Elephant’s Trunk Park) in a Yokohama port area in late April for a limited period.

Zo no Hana Park (Elephant’s Trunk Park) in Yokohama
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Visit Japan Travel Mart 2011

By TERRY - Last updated: 月曜日, 11月 28, 2011

” VJTM2011″(Visit Japan Travel Mart 2011) was hosted at Pacifico Yokohama(http://www.pacifico.co.jp/english/index.html) in Yokohama, Kanagawa Pref.  by JTA(Japan Tourism Agency) ans JNTO(Japan National Tourism Organization)on this Nov.22-23. http://www.vjtm.jp/

More than 300 oversea “buyers” who are travel agencies or the Media from more than 15 international markets joined the event with more than 400 Japanese “sellers” who are travel agencies, tourist associations, hotels,bus companies,and other sorts of  tourism-related businesses. Read the rest of this entry »

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Yokohama Hakkeijima Aquarium dresses its whales in time for Christmas

By Tenkaijapan - Last updated: 日曜日, 11月 20, 2011

Visitors to the aquarium are being welcomed by beluga whales, that are getting into the Christmas spirit with these festive ensembles.

The beluga whales have been fitted out with the Santa hats to entertain the crowds at the Hakkeijima Sea Paradise (横浜・八景島シーパラダイス). Read the rest of this entry »

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The shortest escalator in the world

By Tenkaijapan - Last updated: 土曜日, 10月 1, 2011

This escalator is listed by the Guinness Book of Records as “the shortest escalator in the world”. The number of steps is only 5.

There are stairs next to the elevator and it seems more efficient to use them. Some foreign people who saw the escalator have remarked how lazy Japanese people are, and wonder why Japanese people want to have escalators everywhere, even at places where they are not necessary.
Some say it was designed to force walkers keeping-right.

You can find it in an underground shopping area in Kawasaki station.

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Cup noodle museum opens in Yokohama

By Tenkaijapan - Last updated: 月曜日, 9月 19, 2011

Nissin Foods Holdings will open a cup noodle museum in Yokohama on Sep.18, its second food entertainment spot after a similar popular theme museum in Osaka Prefecture.

The Cupnoodles Museum, which will open in Yokohama’s “Minatomirai(みなとみらい)” district, offers visitors a chance to make instant ramen noodles from flour, and arrange to eat a cup of noodles with the ingredients and soup of their liking.

Visitors can also eat at a restaurant that serves noodle dishes from around the world, while children can experience the whole cup-noodle-making process from noodle preparation to the final shipment stage at a playground that mimics a factory.

Cup noodle museum

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Hours:10:00 to 18:00(Admission until 17:00)
Admission is 500 yen for adults and free for those of senior high school age or younger.
Closed every Tuesdays

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“Reptile cafe” opens in Yokohama

By Tenkaijapan - Last updated: 木曜日, 8月 18, 2011

A “reptile cafe,” offering customers the rare experience of observing exotic creatures while sipping Chinese tea, opened in Yokohama, southwest of Tokyo, in July, the latest addition to a rising number of Japanese cafes featuring animals, typically cats and rabbits.

At the “Reptile Cafe/Yokohama Subtropical Teahouse (爬虫類カフェ 横浜亜熱帯茶館) ” located in the port city’s Naka Ward, customers are able to observe around a dozen different species, totaling 40 in number. Kept in tanks and cages, they include a 1-meter-long lizard and a 1.7-meter-long snake.

“Unexpectedly, we have many female customers,” said Mutsumi Nagano, the 42-year-old manager of the cafe.

The customers are also able to pet land turtles, who the manager says are friendly, in a partitioned-off area, but customers are required to wash their hands on entering and leaving the area.


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Ohfuna (大船) in Kamakura supports stricken city Ohfunato (大船渡)

By Kikki - Last updated: 水曜日, 7月 6, 2011

[From Ohfunato city-my stricken home town]

– East Japan Great Earthquake & Tsunami Disaster-

Event supporting for Ohfunato ‘Ohfuna to Ohfunato(大船から大船渡市へ)

The supporting event for reconstruction of Ofunato ‘Ohfuna to Ohfunato’ will be held on July 16 at the Geijutsu-kan Street in Ohfuna town. The event is planned by the storekeepers’ organization in Ohfuna, Kamakura city. The members of the organization considered there are any possible things to support stricken areas of the disaster. Name of the city 大船 or Ohfuna where their shopping street exists is very similar name to ‘大船渡 or Ohfunato’ so they felt something destiny between them. The organization appealed event project to all four storekeepers’ organizations and enterprises in the east side of JR Ohfuna Station.

 
‘Tsubaki-musume’ from Ohfunato city & Popular cake ‘Kamomeno-tamago’ 

 

According to the executive committee for the event, 300 pieces of T-shirts with drawings of symbols of Ohfuna city, such as ‘Kamakura Kannon’ or the great image of the Goddess of Mercy will be sold at 2,000 yen in the event and also 4,000 posters for promoting the event will be sold at 1,000 yen. Earnings from food and beverages sales at the street stalls and fund-raising will be added on that. The organization will send all earnings as a contribution to Ohfunato city. ‘Tsubaki-musume’ or Miss Camellia Girls from Ohfunato city will arrive and sell popular local cake ‘Kamomeno-tamago’ at the event site. A street concert will be performed by a singer ‘Ohfuna Wataru’ who came from Ohfunato city, too.

Mr. Kensuke Suzuki (50), the deputy chairman of the committee said, ‘We would like to support Ohfunato city at least 10 years, because the stricken city needs long period for its total recovery. They expect that the event will promote close bond of affection between Ohfuna in Kamakura and Ohfunato city. The event runs between 10:00 and 16:00, and the street concert will be called off if it is rain.

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http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/

http://en.wikipedia.org/


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The mountain gate of Eisho-ji Temple restored for the first time in 88 years

By TERRY - Last updated: 日曜日, 5月 29, 2011
Eisho-ji Temple(/英勝寺) in Kawamura City hosted  the ceremony to celebrate the completion of the project of  rebuilding its mountain gate for the first time in 88 years on this May 17th. http://www.kcn-net.org/bunjo/eishoji/index.html

The monks of Eisho-ji hosting the ceremony at the newly rebuilt mountain gate

Eisho-ji was built by Eishohin(/英勝院), the stepmother of  Yorifusa Tokugawa(/徳川頼房), the first feudal lord of  Mito clan which was one of the three primary branch families of the Tokugawa family of  the shoguns of  the Edo Shogunate in the Edo Period 1603-1867, in 1635.  The mountain gate was built by Yorifusa’s first son, Yorishige Matsudaira(/松平頼重), who was a feudal lord of  Takamatsu clan, but it was destroyed by the huge eathquake disaster in Kanto, the East Rigion of Japan, in 1923. Though other buildings of the temple, such as the main building had been rebuilt earlier, the gate took a long time to be rebuilt until the completion of the project last year. Some other buildings such as the main building , the belfry, and so sorth are designated as the prefectural important cultural assets and quite precious historical remainders. Even the old materials of the old mountain gate were designated that way with the prerequisite of  that they were going to be used for the rebuilding construction.
Buddha hall or the main building
It  cost about 150 million yen for the project and several years, according to the explanation of  Tsuneo Utsumi, the secretary general of the rebuilding project.  Now with the completion of the construction of rebuilding the mountain gate, the temple has totally restored its original structure.
And a precious calligraphy ”英勝寺”of  Emperor Gomizunoh(/後水尾天皇), the 108th emperor of Japan(reigned 1611-1629), was discovered during the construction ,which according to Utsumi, will be a new eyecatcher of  sightseeing in Kamakura.

The map of Eisho-ji temple and its area in Kawamura

By the way,  Yorifusa Tokugawa’s second son and a brother of  Yorishige Matsudaira was  Mitsukuni Tokugawa, the second lord of Mito clan.  A TV drama series “Mito-kohmon (/水戸黄門)” featuring Mitsukuni as the hero has been one of the longest and most popular drama, has been going on consecutively for 42 years.  The stories are fictitious but the descriptions of heroic action plots of Mitsukuni and his subjects all of whom hide their indentities and solve problems defeating villains at each episode while traveling around the country is quite simple but easy and enthusiastically welcomed by a lot of people in Japan.

The three main parts of "Mito-kohmon", the central old man is Mitsukuni Tokugawa or Mito-kohmon, and the other two are his reliable strong retainers

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Pretend yourself being a present-day “ISSUN-BOSHI”.

By Kikki - Last updated: 金曜日, 2月 26, 2010
Hakone Tenzan employed japan lacquered bathtub for Women’s Inner Bath
Hakone Tenzan; Wemen's Inner Bath

Hakone Tenzan; Women's Inner Bath

Open air design for “IKKYU” was quite successful, but in comparison, existed inner bath for women was traditionally designed and was seemed enclosed, stuffy, and obsolete. Bathers simply used it as warming their bodies before taking “NOTEN-BURO” or outdoor bath.

Architect, Mr. Hiroshi Ebisawa employed the same concept of “openness” used for the annex bathhouse “IKKYU.” An ordinal and mediocre old inner bath was completely redesigned and reconstructed in 1995.

New women’s inner bath was protruded to the outside next to the outdoor bath in half. You can enjoy feeling in outdoor while staying in an inner bath.

An “URUSHI-BURO” or old “HINOKI” cypress bath lacquered with japan was employed this time. The japan bathtub is maintenance free and can be used without weekly day off.

"ISSUN-BOSHI" or Japanese Tom Thumb in a japan lacqured bowl.

"ISSUN-BOSHI" or Japanese Tom Thumb in a japan lacquered bowl.

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24. You can ride the world’s shortest escalator 8,000 times a day – kawasaki more’s

By Tenkaijapan - Last updated: 火曜日, 2月 23, 2010

kawasaki more's

kawasaki more's


Kawasaki is not officially ‘Tokyo,’ but we’d like to claim the world’s shortest escalator — in Kawasaki More — as part of our urban experience.
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Cool Japan Poster: Hakone

By Tenkaijapan - Last updated: 火曜日, 2月 9, 2010

Cool Japan Hakone

Cool Japan Hakone


The Japan National Tourism Organization (JNTO), the government entity created to promote tourism from overseas, announced on January 25 that it co-created an English Evangelion tourism pamphlet and “Cool Japan Poster: Hakone” with the Evangelion character Rei Ayanami against the backdrop of Hakone’s Lake Ashi and nearby Mount Fuji.
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Hakone Tenzan, Annex Bathhouse “IKKYU”

By Kikki - Last updated: 土曜日, 2月 6, 2010
Hakone Tenzan, Annex Bathhouse "IKKYU".

Hakone Tenzan, Annex Bathhouse "IKKYU".

During the five years between the opening of expanded new Tenzan in 1987 and additional eating places in 1991, an important social and economy change in policy occurred. Since Japanese yen became stronger in 1885, the government had been encouraging consumers to spend their money domestically. In 1987, Resort Resolution was passed, which gave special tax exemption, to local governments to development of leisure resorts. Over 30 organizations jumped on the opportunity to develop resort hotels, golf courses, ski slopes, and onsen facilities. Read the rest of this entry »

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Hakone Tenzan, Characteristic Three Restaurants

By Kikki - Last updated: 木曜日, 1月 28, 2010

Architect, Mr. Hiroshi Ebisawa designed three characteristic restaurants for Unyu Tenzan in 1991, as I mentioned last time. It is quite interesting to see these restaurants in detail.

1st Floor “NANASE” Barbecue House

Hakone Tenzan, Barbecue House "NANASE"

Hakone Tenzan, Barbecue House "NANASE"

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BAPE STORE Yokohama

By Tenkaijapan - Last updated: 土曜日, 11月 29, 2008

BAPE STORE Yokohama
184-2, Yamate-cho, Naka-ku, Yokohama
045-628-0140
Mens
MAP:BAPE STORE Yokohama


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Burberry Blue Label Takashimaya Yokohama

By Tenkaijapan - Last updated: 水曜日, 11月 26, 2008

Burberry Blue Label Takashimaya Yokohama
バーバリーブルーレーベル高島屋横浜店
At Takashimaya Yokohama store, 1-6-31, Minamisaiwai, Nishi-ku, Yokohama 045-319-5789  
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