One of the top three biggest festivals in Japan includes Aomori Prefecture’s Nebuta Festival held in August. The festival is famous for its massive lantern floats. The festival events lasts for seven days with these huge man-powered floats making their rounds on the streets at night almost scraping buildings as they move along. It takes [...]
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In the past few years, Inakadate Village in Aomori Prefecture has been getting a lot of publicity during the summer. Why? It is because of their unique way of planting rice. They use three or four different kinds of rice plants, basically different colors, to create a MASSIVE picture display on several rice paddies. It [...]
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On my birthday I received a pair of eclipse glasses as a present in preparation for the July 22nd total solar eclipse. It has been 46 years since the last solar eclipse has passed over Japan. This year in particular, a couple of the islands in southern Japan between Kyushu and Okinawa were right in [...]
That not what it is really called, but it sure looks like it. With many of Japan’s major cities being over populated, they needed to come up with a way to deal with “making space”. So one solution for parking was these ferris wheel looking parking structures. The way it’s done is by driving your car [...]
July 7th in Japan is known as “Tanabata” or ‘Star Festival’. Tanabata is explained through a Japanese legend, with its origins from China. Two stars Hikoboshi (Altair / the cow herder star) and Orihime (Vega / the weaving princess) fall deeply in love, but are separated by “Amanogawa” (Milky Way / Heaven’s River). They [...]
