Historical Shooting the Arakawa Rapids Featured Watch the boatmen as they handle their long bamboo shafts with great skill... , punting when needed, pushing the craft away from rocks at other times
Historical 7 Lucky Gods New Year Pilgrimage Joe Peters A great New Year activity for the whole family - take a walk - collect your 7 lucky gods while seeing parts of the "old Tokyo."
Historical Takayama's Beautiful Fall Festival Amber Echevarria These are huge, heavy old wooden carts that stretch to around 20 feet (... controlled by as many as 36 strings and 9 skillful puppeteers from inside the carts
Museums Visiting Bansuiso Anonymous Bansuiso is open to the public as a site-seeing spot and a venue for arts... Perhaps the best piece of art in the building is the painting of Hisamitsu
Historical Hokoku-ji Temple in Spring Tomoko Kamishima in the mid 13th Century, their priests cultivated and refined various arts... that related to their Buddhist principles; arts such as calligraphy, seal-engraving
Festivals Sendai Tanabata Festival Brian Sealey decorations made by citizens from all over Japan, from Kushidama to paper cranes... heartbreaking of decorations come from Nagasaki and Hiroshima, where thousands of cranes
Festivals Yokohama's Nanohana Festival 2024 May 11th - May 12th Visit a rural community covered with fields of gorgeous flowers, locally crafted flower made foods, and an overall festive atmosphere!
Culture Mizushima Central Park Kenji Chida street, you will immediately feel a sense of nostalgia brought on by the art... A bit further down the road is the Bushidokan or martial arts center.