Kenrokuen and the Island of Eternal Youth
Strolling through the Garden and Discovering the World
Kanazawa Yusen
There is a little museum with an onsite workshop for the traditional craft of painting silk cloth and patterning kimono.
Wonderful Sweet Shop
Delightful simple sweets, which seem immensely popular …
Garden Studies (Kanazawa)
Kanazawa’s traditional houses are surrounded by gardens of rare beauty and simplicity.
Ninja Dera
Ninja Dera (Ninja Temple) or formally known as Myoryuji Temple …
Masks, Armour and Ghosts
Again and again encounters with masks and memories of ghosts … (the Kanazawa collection)
Wooden Lattice Houses and Streets
Higashichaya, Nishichaya and Kazuemachi are the three traditional entertainment districts in Kanazawa.
River View
Lessons in Landscape Appreciation
Gold Leaves
Stunned at the friendliest gold selling shop …
Odd Western or Semi-Western Houses (Kanazawa)
It is called little Kyoto but somehow in some areas there are these houses that evoke Yokohama and the era before the world wars …
Ame Ame Ame
A Candy Store where Decades or Centuries meet …
Scene under a Tree
Textile traces
A House in Higashi Chaya
exploring one of the houses in the area …
Showa Style Allround Sweet Shop
Unexpected Time Tunnel in the Middle of the Street
Kanazawa – First Explorational Stroll
A first exploration through little Kyoto.
Hundred Stories about Love
encountering a poem in exchange for non-taken photographs
HIMEJI WAR MEMORIAL
… to commemorate the casualties of aerial bombing during World War II and to appease the spirits of people who died in air raids all over Japan …
UNIVERSAL VILLAGE (STUDIOS)
There is an area near Osaka Further info: Universal Studios Japan described on Wikipedia
TO THE SILVERMINE (Ikuno)
Hidden in the mountains of Hyogo Prefecture there is the old Ikuno silver mine. Visiting the site and crawling in its dark tunnels unearths memories of times long gone by.
Kumamoto Hotel Castle
CINDERELLA (with a different end), a Ghost Story
A NOBLEMAN’S HOUSE
Faint echoes of something at the reconstructed Hosokawa residence near the castle …
THE GINKGO CASTLE
Remains of the day and reconstructed memories. The dark castle in the South.
Castella, Castella
A cake from the West, a cake from the East
Nagasaki International Club
and Tomisaburo Kuraba
GLOVER GARDEN
In Memory of the Glovers (and the Nagasaki Foreign Settlement during the late Edo, Meiji Period and its echoes in the Taisho Period)
A Shelter for those Waiting
Passing by a story comes to mind.
HUIS TEN BOSCH
Legend has it that someone took a Dutch village and single-handedly whisked it away to the far shores of Japan, where it was grafted into the existing landscape.
Nagasaki Port
Gateway to the World
Nagasaki Chinatown
Visiting the King of Cats
Nagasaki Night Stroll
Just a stroll in the downtown area …
Looking for Siebold
Up, up the hill … lies a villa, behind bushes of hydrangeas …
A Stroll up and down the Hills of Nagasaki City
A midday stroll up and down the hill around the former Siebold residence …
Nuclear Memories
Visiting the Center of Nuclear Rememberance
Nagasaki Peace Memorial
Wordless at the Memorial Park
Ten Million Dollar Night View
Breathtaking, melancholic view of a sparkling, imaginary jewel …
Canal City Hakata
A city in a city, or a theme park in a shopping mall?
