Category Archives: 日本国

境港 [Sakaiminato]

To get the steam rolling for Hallowe’en next weeekend, we bring you a post about an almost-literal Yokai Town. Sakaiminato [境港] is a small town in the Prefecture of Tottori [鳥取県, Tottori-ken] in the east of Japan. It might not … Continue reading

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温泉 [Onsen]

Onsen [温泉] is a Japanese word composed of two kanji. The first one, 温, which can be read “on” (among some other sounds) means “warm”. The second one, 泉, read as “sen” (again, among other sounds), means fountain. So what … Continue reading

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富士山 [Fuji-san]

This weekend marks the one-year anniversary of our climbing Mount Fuji, which we did on the 10th/11th of August 2019, the second weekend of the month (on Japanese Mountain Day). We thought we might give you some information about Japan’s … Continue reading

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Coca-Cola Slim Bottle Regional Designs

For the last few years, Coca-Cola has made limited designs for their aluminium 250-millilitre bottles. These include, for example, cherry-blossom season, Rugby World Cup or Olympic Games competitions, and even historical events or figures, such as one with the Tokugawa … Continue reading

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Vampire Café (Ginza, Japan)

We’re not exactly sure of how the Vampire Café came into our radar, but it is something we had been wanting to check for a while before we had the chance. A common complain or issue that we find in … Continue reading

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Stamp rally! – Caza de sellos!

One thing that you have to be prepared for in Japan are ink stamps. Stamps are awesome, and great, and make awesome souvenirs – 100% personal. There are two kinds of stamps: the commemorative ones and shuin. Shuin (朱印) Shuin … Continue reading

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Kurotamago (Cooking in a volcano / Cocinando en un volcán)

Black eggs are a typical and delicious food / snack from the valley of Ōwakudani, in Hakone in the prefecture of Kanagawa. In Japanese they are called ‘kurotamago’ [黒卵]. Kuro means black and tamago means egg, so they are literally … Continue reading

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Beppu & Beppu Jigoku

Beppu [別府] is a city in the Ōita Prefecture, to the east of the island of Kyuushu in the south of Japan. It has so much geothermal activity that they had to build “chimneys” into the ground to vent the … Continue reading

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Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building (TMGB)

Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building or TMGB [東京都庁, Tōkyō Tochō] is basically Tokyo’s city hall, so you might think about giving it a miss, but here’s a well-known secret: one of the buildings has two free observation decks, and they are … Continue reading

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fesFE[M] & SAITAMA Summer Rock Festival 2019 ~漆黒のシンフォニー~ pump up!!, 16 Ag. 2019

Back in May 2019, we attended the JUPITER concert in Madrid. While we were unable to attend any of the JUPITER concerts in Japan, as we were always somewhere else (cities or concerts), we could see the Japanese band who … Continue reading

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