"Alice in Magicalland"presented by Otome ishou zukan

As a model,I(Ai) will join a fashion show ”Alice in Magicalland”presented by “Otome ishou zukan”!!Please check it out!!

The show is supported by the fashion brand PEACE NOW.

Date:February 5th

Time:19:00~

Everyone could see the show on nikonikogouda(http://www.nicovideo.jp/) for free.

For details,check（http://live.nicovideo.jp/watch/lv78845683）

Jinichi Kawakami, 62, the 21st head of the Koga ninja clan, assumed the post to teach ninja know-how at the university’s Community-University Cooperation Center as of Dec. 1.

Kawakami has promoted ninja culture at home and abroad through his studies.

He was 18 when he became head of the clan, one of Japan’s two major ninja clans dating back some 500 years. He began learning the use of ”shuriken” weapons and other skills from the age of 6 under his predecessor.

Kawakami is also the honorary director of Iga-ryu Ninja Museum where you can learn about Ninja and experience Ninjutsu ( martial arts practiced by Ninja).

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Iga-ryu Ninja Museum 117-13-1 Ueno Marunouchi, Iga-shi, Mie-ken
Entrance Fee: Adults: 700 yen (600 yen) Children: 400 yen (300 yen)
* Fees contained in ( ) are rates for groups of 30 or more
* Other Fees: Ninja Show 200 yen/person (Closed some days; please confirm beforehand) Shuriken Throwing Experience 200 yen/person, 5 throws
Hours of Operation
9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
* Entry is closed at 4:30 p.m.
Days Closed Dec. 29 – Jan. 1
Web Site: http://iganinja.jp/en/index.html

 

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Life-size statue of Hatsune Miku

The statue will stand at 158 centimeters (about 62 inches) tall.

Statue of Hatsune Miku

Hatsune Miku is collaborating with Sanrio’s Hello Kitty for a Snow Miku line of characters goods that will only be available in the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido.

Hatsune Miku’s sheet of stamps; closed sales only in Hokkaido

The collaboration ties into the Snow Miku promotion that Crypton Future Media has created as part of this year’s festival.

Nendoroid snow Miku fluffy coat ver. figure

Part of the promotion includes two Snow Miku plush dolls, and Crypton Future Media will also sell 3,000 limited-edition Nendoroid Snow Miku Fluffy Coat Ver. figures at the Sapporo Factory Hall this winter.

The Sapporo Snow Festival will be held from February 6-12.
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Some Visual kei artists sing animation’s theme song.
For example…
Danshikoukousei no nichijo(男子高校生の日常)”Shiny tale”Mix Speaker’s,Inc.
Inu Boku SS(妖狐×僕SS)”Nirvana”MUCC
BRAVE10″艶男。-adeosu-”ADAPTER。

I haven’t seen these anime yet.(´x`)
But I have read comics of “Inuboku”!!
Its picture is so cute♪

Check it out(＾_-)☆！

I like this action☆

It is freesoft for windows.
You can download for free!!⇒≪しめじ≫

≪pixiv≫
↑In this web page,
You can find many anime character version SHIMEJI.
Please search for “しめじ”
（^3^）♪

New dinning room ‘Hamanasu’

‘Hamanasu’ is used to be a restaurant mainly for breakfast. It was not bad for serving breakfast, but not suitable for dinner. New wallpaper and carpet covered the interior and lighting was totally changed in the renewal work. Serving method is rescheduled and newly an open style kitchen and a buffet table are equipped. All furniture in the dinning is also completely changed.

‘Senami Onsen-mushi’

New menu ‘Senami Onsen-mushi’ is created and served in dinner courses. Fresh seafood, local beef and pork, eggs, and variety of vegetables from local farms are directly steamed by 93℃-hot spring water gushed out from Senami Onsen.

‘Ofuku-wake-kitchen’

‘Ofuku-wake-kitchen’ is new dishes cooked in the open style kitchen in which food materials are brought directly from local farms such as famous ‘Iwanuma Koshihikari Rice and fresh fruits in Minami-ohira district.

＜Reference materials＞

Monthly Hotel Ryokan June 2011

http://ja.wikipedia.org/

http://www.jalan.net/

■For travelers from overseas

As a certified guide-interpreter in English and also a writer of the website “Cool Japan Guide”, I am very happy to introduce ‘Yubae-no-yado Shiomi-so’ in Senami Onsen Resort, Niigata. If you have something to ask, like to make reservation, or need English speaking tour guide when visit to Senami Onsen Resort, please feel free to contact us. Thank you for your kind cooperation, I am looking forward to your contact.

Please Contact Us/お問合せ

■Introduction of the specialist for Onsen design

If you like to build a real Japanese style hot spring facility in your country, I would like to introduce one of the best Japanese architects, Mr. Hiroshi Ebisawa, who is specialized in Onsen facility.

Please contact: http://www.e-koubo.co.jp/
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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?

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.

Oshima will play one of Shirahama’s colleagues, an English teacher. She becomes an eventual love interest for him, though it seems to develop into a love triangle with his older brother’s wife (Rie Miyazawa).
This is the first time that an AKB48 member has appeared in a drama starring an Arashi member. Filming will take place between February and March, but it is said that initially their schedules were so busy there was only one day when they were both available. However, their schedules were later adjusted, and the production team gave up on filming on location (due to the time required just to travel) and instead constructed a nearly 2,000-square-meter set in Yokohama that reportedly cost 100 million yen.

The second episode of “Blackboard ~Jidai to Tatakatta Kyoushitachi~” will star Koichi Sato (佐藤浩市）,51, as a teacher during the 1980s having to deal with school violence. Shida Mirai (志田未来）,18, will play a delinquent student, and Shihori Kanjiya  (貫地谷しおり) ,26, will play another teacher at the school.

TBS plans to broadcast “Blackboard ~Jidai to Tatakatta Kyoushitachi~” over three consecutive nights in April.

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.)

‘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.

Senami Onsen Resort

Senami Onsen Resort is located in Murakami City, Niigata Prefecture. The Onsen Resort faced to Senami Coast and has 11 accommodation facilities including Japanese style inns and resort hotels. It has also one Onsen facility for day trippers without stay over night. There are two free ‘Ashi-yu’ or ,a Japanese public bath where people can bathe their feet. As well as ‘Koganesaki Furou-fushi Onsen Resort’ in Aomori Prefecture, Senami Onsen is well known for its beautiful sunset view along the Sea of Japan. It is designated as one of the holy places for a pair of lovers by N.P.O. Area Activation Center. ‘Miomote River’ which is well known as a large number salmons going upstream, runs through the city, and therefore each inn commonly serves dishes of salmon for room guests. The development of Onsen source is not old but rather recent year in Meiji 37 (1904).

Attractive special floor ‘The Ocean Club’

‘Yubae-no-yado Shiomiso’ in Senami Onsen Reosrt, Nigata Prefecture finished its renovation work on March 3, 2011. Newly renovation in one of the leading resort hotels in Senami Onsen created the special floor named ‘The Ocean Club’ and a dinning room ‘Hamanasu’.

The Ocean Club is renovated floor on the 6^th floor of the south guest house, consisting of 7 rooms in three different types.

‘View of beautiful sunset into the Sea of Japan’ is their main attraction so each room is laid out that view of ocean can be observed from each room while staying.

Special Suites with an outdoor bath

Room 601, 602, and 603 are special suites named ‘the special suite with an outdoor hot spring bath’ in which are consisted of a Japanese style room, a twin-bed room, a living room, and an outdoor hot spring bath.

Japanese style bedroom with a terrace

Other three guest rooms, 607, 608, and 609, facing to the sea are called ‘the Japanese style bedroom with a terrace’ in which twin beds are place on the tatami floor and have a living room with a terrace.

Western bedroom with an outdoor bath

Another guestroom 610 is called ‘the Western style bedroom with an outdoor hot spring bath’ in which is consisting of a 6-mat Japanese style room, a twin bedroom, a living room, and an universal design outdoor hot spring bath.

Beautiful sunset scene can be observed from all rooms in ‘the Ocean Club.’

[Five ranking to evaluate hotel’s performance through the grapevine]

＜Reference materials＞

Monthly Hotel Ryokan June 2011

http://ja.wikipedia.org/

http://www.jalan.net/

■For travelers from overseas

As a certified guide-interpreter in English and also a writer of the website “Cool Japan Guide”, I am very happy to introduce ‘Yubae-no-yado Shiomi-so’ in Senami Onsen Resort, Niigata. If you have something to ask, like to make reservation, or need English speaking tour guide when visit to Senami Onsen Resort, please feel free to contact us. Thank you for your kind cooperation, I am looking forward to your contact.

Please Contact Us/お問合せ

■Introduction of the specialist for Onsen design

If you like to build a real Japanese style hot spring facility in your country, I would like to introduce one of the best Japanese architects, Mr. Hiroshi Ebisawa, who is specialized in Onsen facility.

Please contact: http://www.e-koubo.co.jp/

View Yubae-no-yado Shiomi-so in a larger map

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.

We are uploading many photos of Japanese home cooked dishes constantly at 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/

‘Manyo-no-yu’ in New Chitose Airport

■Floor layout

● 5^th Flloor

●M-4^th Floor

● 4^th Floor

Entrance & reception

Interior is decorated with Japanese taste in traditional private house style design.

Inner & outdoor grand baths

Inner grand bath is wide enough. Grand baths for men and women, are equipped with a set of grand bath, lukewarm bath, amusement baths, sauna, mist sauna, and skin scrape booths.

Weak alkaline natural hot spring water in outdoor bath is comfortable to skin. Onsen water is provided from the original hot spring sauce in Chitose City. Sunset view of Mt. Tarumae (樽前山,) from the outdoor bath is quite magnificent.

Saunas & Mist sauna

Ganbannyoku rooms

Three different kinds of Ganban’yoku (岩盤浴) rooms are equipped. It is exclusive use for adult. A set of additional charge \700 including Yukata and long bath towel is required.

Guest room & napping rooms

Relaxation room & chartered room

Body care therapies & skin rubbing

Amusements & library

Souvenir shop & computer booth

Men’s & women’s locker rooms

＜Reference materials＞

http://www.manyo.co.jp/chitose/

■For travelers from overseas

As a certified guide-interpreter in English and also a writer of the website “Cool Japan Guide”, I am very happy to introduce ‘Manyo-no-yu’ at the New Chitose Airport in Hokkaido. If you have something to ask, like to make reservation, or need English speaking tour guide when visit to Hokkaido, please feel free to contact us. Thank you for your kind cooperation, I am looking forward to your contact.

Please Contact Us/お問合せ

■Introduction of the specialist for Onsen design

If you like to build a real Japanese style hot spring facility in your country, I would like to introduce one of the best Japanese architects, Mr. Hiroshi Ebisawa, who is specialized in Onsen facility.

Please contact: http://www.e-koubo.co.jp/
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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.

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

＊Bossa du Ge Ge Ge no Kitaro by Clementine