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Here comes cherry blossoms season in Kansai Area. I drove to Tamba City to see and shooting photos of the view. There are many cherry tre...

Here come cherry blossoms.

I'm sorry about silence because I caught a bad cold for some weeks. I'm just fine now. It was so chilly even in April this year. I planed...

Updated my blog.

Nakayama Temple in Takaradzuka is well known as devotion to safe childbirth since ancient times. Many pregnant women and their fami...

New location updated.

Sparkle flagellates are often found in small ponds or caves all over the Main Island of Japan. They are called "Hikari-mo". I was su...

Nature’s mystery.

Sakoshi is a small port town but it has various features, e.g. the lenegends of historical person Hata no Kawakatsu and the ceremony "Funa M...

Updated new location.

Aayabe-yama is located in Tasuno City, and is very close to Aboshi Area in Himeji City. Thus this area is very influenced from Himeji eccono...

New location updated.

Maiko Area, Tarumi-ku is an another scenic spot in Kobe Warterfront. It was known as a beautiful beach with sands and green pines untill WW2...

Updated!

Kyu-Kyoryuchi was started as a foregin settlement in 1868, as a result of Treaty of Amity and Commerce between Japan and US. It brought...

The 2-3 floors of Center Plaza West are known as Otaku district. It started in '80s and shops are getting too many layers year by year. I so...

San Plaza and Center Plaza are old and big commercial buidings located on Sannomiya Center Street. Honestly, these buidings are not lively...

Fast-food restaurant mall at lunch time in Sannomiya, Kobe City

Shopping malls under Viaducts actually are common things as you know. Today, each station has a supermarket or restaurant mall as a part of...

A small history and chaos in the central Kobe.

I went to the movie theater in Motomachi today, I stopped by Nankin-machi on the way. Nankin-machi is one of 3 old Chinatowns in Japan. I...

Hankyu Group (Hankyu Hanshin Toho Group) has large properties around the station, so they are often called "Hankyu-mura" meaning Hankyu vill...

I have few ceremonies of new year recently since living alone, but I regularly visit my younger aunt's family living in Osaka every new year...

Today, I visited Shin-Nagata Station Area in Kobe City. It is truely unpretentious town. My priority location is Marugo Market, but unfortun...

Shin-Nagata, Kobe

I got interested in a spot on the guide board in Chizu. I didn't have any information about it, but I felt something by instinct. The weathe...

Last spot on this travel

I didn't have plans to visit Chizu-shuku where it is heavy snowfall area, but I changed my mind since the locals of Fukuhara told me there w...

New spot updated.

Somewhere, somehow.