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Trunk toward the unknown – Objet of abstractat Yokohama port
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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” 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 »
(3 投票, 平均値/最大値: 5.00 / 5)Loading...Yokohama Hakkeijima Aquarium dresses its whales in time for Christmas
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 »
(3 投票, 平均値/最大値: 5.00 / 5)Loading...The shortest escalator in the world
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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(2 投票, 平均値/最大値: 5.00 / 5)Loading...Cup noodle museum opens in Yokohama
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
(2 投票, 平均値/最大値: 5.00 / 5)Loading...“Reptile cafe” opens in Yokohama
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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(3 投票, 平均値/最大値: 5.00 / 5)Loading...Ohfuna （大船） in Kamakura supports stricken city Ohfunato （大船渡）
[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.
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| ‘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.
＜Reference＞
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/
http://en.wikipedia.org/
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(6 投票, 平均値/最大値: 5.00 / 5)Loading...The mountain gate of Eisho-ji Temple restored for the first time in 88 years
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The monks of Eisho-ji hosting the ceremony at the newly rebuilt mountain gate
The map of Eisho-ji temple and its area in Kawamura
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
(7 投票, 平均値/最大値: 5.00 / 5)Loading...Pretend yourself being a present-day “ISSUN-BOSHI”.
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 lacquered bowl.
(2 投票, 平均値/最大値: 5.00 / 5)Loading...24. You can ride the world’s shortest escalator 8,000 times a day – 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 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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(1 投票, 平均値/最大値: 5.00 / 5)Loading...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 »
(まだ評価されていません)Loading...Hakone Tenzan, Characteristic Three Restaurants
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"
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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
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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