Odaiba is a large artificial island in Tokyo Bay, Japan, across the Rainbow Bridge from central Tokyo.
There is ”Oedo Onsen Monogatari” ONSEN(Hot Springs)Entertainment
■Official site：http://www.ooedoonsen.jp/en/top/
It was initially built for defensive purposes in the 1850s, dramatically expanded during the late 20th century as a seaport district, and has developed since the 1990s as a major commercial, residential and leisure area. Odaiba, along with Minato Mirai 21 in Yokohama, are two of the only places in the Greater Tokyo Metropolitan area where the seashore is accessible, and not blocked by industry and harbor areas.
Graceful and elegant works are at the Imperial Palace in TOKYO JAPAN.
There is a bonsai works called "Omichi Teien Garden" at the Imperial Palace.
About 600 bonsai pieces of some 90 species of plants are cultivated there.
Among them are many hundreds-of-year-old trees. Bonsai at the Imperial Palace is characterized by three major features --
many large bonsai works, nature-oriented bonsai formations that hold down artificial techniques as much as possible, and a number of antique trees aged more than 100.
These are believed to have added overwhelming elegance to bonsai works at the palace that are different from modern bonsai works.
Many bonsai lovers long to see bonsai pieces at the palace.
Popular SUSHI restaurant in Osaka.
Splendid course menu and Japanese sake:about JPY10,000~15,000.
Originally, sushi was fish pickled for preservation.
But in the Edo period, people in Edo started using fresh fish instead of pickled fish.
They put raw fish slices or shellfish on top of small vinegared rice balls which were rolled
by hand.
This is called “ nigiri-zushi” typically known as “sushi” in Japan and all over the world.
TAKOYAKI is round pastry stuffed with diced octopus.
It is fun to see the work to make it while turning the TAKOYAKI.
Please try to eat when you came to Japan!
TAKOYAKI is casual Japanese food, often eaten as snacks, often eaten as snacks.
It is a kind of fried dumpling made of a wheat flour base batter.
The word “Takoyaki” literally means ‘fried/grilled octopus’.
It is typically filled with minced octopus, scallions, “Beni-Shoga” (pickled ginger), and
“Tenkasu” (scraps of tempura). “Takoyaki” is cooked using a special
“Takoyaki” pan, which is an iron griddle having a half spherical molds.
KYOTO. Especially, the cherry blossoms in spring and the colored leaves in autumn are highly recommended.
The colored leaves in Kyoto in autumn are just spectacular!
The high season for autumn leaves is roughly between the mid-November to the beginning of December.
The Kitano Tenmangu Shrine is a shrine built in the northwest section of Kyoto over 1000 years ago. The shrine was built during 947AD by the emperor of the time in honor of Sugawara no Michizane, a scholar and politician who represented the middle Heian period (794 AD – 1185 AD), as well as for the peace of the nation. Ever since, the imperial family, nobles, samurais and commoners alike all visit the shrine to worship.
The Kitano Tenmangu Shrine is the very first shrine in Japanese history where an actual person was enshrined as a deity.
Hokusai Katsushika of ukiyo-e (1760-1849） Hokusai is perhaps the Japanese artist best known. Paintings of Hokusai is also the origin of japanese comic. His influence has extended from the Impressionists to later modern art and even to commercial design. the "Great Wave" and the "Red Fuji" from the Thirty-six Views of Mt. Fuji represent only a tiny action of Hokusai's output. The pages of the Sketches, with their teeming humanity and their boundless interest in the details of everyday life, give only a small idea of his true scope. Hokusai's life was characterized by a prodigious energy and productivity that continued to the end of his ninth decade; his output comprises a correspondingly broad variety of genres and styles. ■The Sumida Hokusai Museum (TOKYO) Official website：hokusai-museum.jp
