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Kyoto Handicraft Center – a souvenir shop featuring traditional Japanese crafts.

2023.06.25

In Kyoto, a particularly popular tourist destination in Japan, I visited a souvenir shop called Kyot...

Goods Japanese culture Regions of Japan Sightseeing

Komanogu – Shop for Kurashiki Canvas and other Japanese folk crafts

2023.04.10

Osaka, Japan, and especially the area around Hommachi Station is a business district with many build...

Japanese culture Japanese Manufacturing Regions of Japan Sightseeing

Let’s touch Japanese crafts! I visited “Nakagawa Masashichi Shoten Nara Main Store” in Nara

2023.03.14

*This blog is a continuation of the previous article, “I went sightseeing in Nara Park for hal...

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What is Izakaya? I went to Izakaya in Japan.

2023.02.25

Do you know Izakaya in Japan? Izakaya is written “居酒屋(いざかや)” in kanji. 居 means to sit.Za...

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Bean-throwing festival! “Setsubun.”

2023.01.29

February 3 is “Setsubun” in Japan. What exactly is Setsubun? Let me explain!   What...

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Nijiyura, a store specializing in tenugui hand towels made by artisans

2023.01.26

Tenugui is a traditional Japanese textile product. A thin Japanese hand towel made of cotton, it was...

Food&Drink Japanese culture Regions of Japan

I visited a sake brewery in Nara, the birthplace of Seishu (SAKE).

2023.01.20

This article is a continuation of “History of NARASAKE- Its location is the birthplace of Seis...

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Experiencing Japan’s Paper Culture. Introducing a specialty store in Kyoto that carries 5,000 different kinds of washi!

2023.01.14

Washi, Japan’s representative paper Do you all know “Washi“? There may be many peo...

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