JapanTravelTips 6/14/2015 Awa odori,Japanese castle&Wagyu beef

One of my favourite things about blogging is the opportunity to go to events you normally wouldn’t, in particular food-related ones! Last month I went to “Experience Premium Japanese Food and Drink” at the Intercontinental London Park Lane, which was hosted by the Japan External Trade Organi

On my way back home from a day-trip to Katsuyama City to enjoy carp streamers and cherry blossoms, I stopped by at Shindaiji Temple to see Echizen Daibutsu (Big Buddha Statue) for the first time. The birth of this Japan’s biggest Buddha Statue in a sitting position is rather unique.

Do you know about a website called “LocalFellows”?  This is the website which helps you (travelers) to find local people who can show you around their local areas. After you have signed up for this website, you can make a travel request on this website.

The interior of the typical Japanese castle was often hiding defensive “tricks”, designed to surprise or confuse the attackers, such as the ishi-otoshi floor openings.

The Awa Odori of Japan is famous worldwide right now. It’s slightly postponed but there are plans to hold an Awa Odori Paris 2015 too. Awa Odori originated in Tokushima Prefecture. The Tokushima Awa Odori Festival has a 400-year-old history, lasts for 4 days from 8/12-8/15, has about 1.

All cultures have their idiosyncratic debates; those minor ones that rage on and on, sometimes for generations. Toilet paper: scrunch or fold? Front seat: whoever calls it first or survival of the fittest? How do you settle an age old debate of chocolate snacks?