Takako Sakamoto

@takako.sakamoto

I was born in and grew up in Tokushima prefecture, and have lived in many places since then: Nishinomiya, Kyoto, Nara, Mie, Tokyo, Kanagawa, Saitama, Chiba, Fukuoka and Fukui. I am currently living in Yokohama City. All the places I lived, all the places I visited, I have loved dearly. The historical places where people lived, loved, suffered, and fought - places where I can still hear their heartbeats - mesmerize me. I'd like to retrace the footsteps of the people who lived in Japan a long long time ago, and introduce to you what they left behind on this soil.

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Gunkanjima Perspective - No. 1

On New Year's Day this year, I landed on Hashima Island, which is commonly known as 'Gunkanjima, the Battleship Island', by speed boat that departed from the port of Nagasaki in the afternoon. Since this island is located in the out..

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How to get to Tokushima from Kansai

'Southern paradise Tokushima' is what Tokushima locals call their homeland. However, to get to this southern paradise is rather inconvenient if you'd like to visit from Kansai. Before the Great Akashi Strait Bridge was constructed, there ..

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Sakamoto Ryoma and Yuri Kimimasa

Sakamoto Ryoma is one of the famous, beloved heroes of Japanese history. He was assassinated just before the Meiji Restoration, but it had been well-known among history lovers that he visited Fukui about a week before he was killed in Kyoto. His last..

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Naruto Park, Tokushima

Naruto Park is located at the foot of the Great Naruto Bridge (on Tokushima side). As soon as you cross it, you are already inside the park. After visiting the Otsuka Museum of Art, I climbed up to one of the observation platforms in the park and enj..

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Pleasure Ride on Sky Duck Yokohama

Unless you are either James Bond or a marine soldier, you don't get to ride on an amphibious vehicle easily, do you? But if you can do so without hassle, don't you want to try it? Ladies and gentlemen of adventurous hearts, here's your on..

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Kanazawa Bunko, A Samurai's Library

Located in the suburb of Kamakura, Kanazawa Bunko, currently one of Kanagawa's Prefectural museums, is presumed to be the oldest library established by and for samurai in the 13th century. Kanazawa Bunko (文庫:bunko means library) was created as a..

Kanagawa

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Chrysanthemum Festival at Sankeien

Sankeien Garden in Yokohama is famous for its seasonal beauty. On November 3rd this year, I visited here to see its beautiful colored leaves. Unfortunately, the trees here hadn't started to turn colors yet, but I could unexpectedly see beautiful ..

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Honmoku Citizens Park in Yokohama

I found Honmoku Citizens Park quite by chance. We were driving to Sankeien Garden in Yokohama to see early autumn leaves there, and suddenly realized that it was a national holiday, and so Sankeien Garden could be unbearably crowded. In the worst cas..

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