Japanese Bonsai Trees have been a part of Japanese culture for over 1000 years going back to the Heian Era. Today, we’ll visit the Omiya Bonsai Art Museum 大宮盆栽美術館 in Saitama to see some amazing tree! One in particular is a 1000 year old Ezo Spruce that has a lot of personality.
Using Japanese Pop Culture to turn heads and bring attention to one of Japan’s most beautiful and relatively unknown spot in Kansai, Awaji Island. Can this turn around Japan’s countryside economy?
Japan’s Fireworks Town is Katakai, Niigata Prefecture, and they host an annual festival dedicated to launching them high into the sky over scenic rice paddies. Meet the YONSHAKUDAMA Japan’s biggest fireworks shell weighs about 420kg (925 pounds) It was created by Masanori Honda in 1986.
Japan’s conveyor Belt Sushi restaurants called kaitenzushi 回転寿司 in Japanese are a favorite with everybody. Yes, I said everybody!
Eating Ramen in Japan is always delicious and in Tokyo, you’ll find a chef that wants to give his customers a new kind of bowl. Koizumi Takao is a ramen chef the looks for beauty in his creation. Nature inspired him to make his famous Blue Ramen which is like the ocean or the sky. The question — Is this ramen any good?
Hiroshima, August 6, 1945. It’s a day that changed everything. The atomic bomb decimated the city, killing nearly all nearby the blast. Fast forward about 75 years later, and Hiroshima is now a beautiful city, resurrected from the ruins of the post war period. Near the hypocenter
Japan is known for sushi, ninja, Mt. Fuji, and the bullet train but let’s not forget ーJapan is an island! In fact, Tokyo has some of the best scuba diving in Japan in an area known as Ogasawara, the Galapagos of the East.
Japan’s oldest market is in Kochi prefecture (Shikoku) and has been going on for over 390 year. t started in the Edo period when a Feudal lord set it up so citizens could get everyday things for life like fruits
The Shimanto River is the only major river in Japan without a dam, the water flowing from the origin in the mountains to the Pacific Ocean 200km away.
Sushi may be Japan’s most popular food. There are all kinds of sushi — high end to cheap, high-tech conveyor belt sushi to supermarket and convenient store sushi. There’s nigiri, maki, gunkan, narezushi, temaki …
Japan is famous for it’s luxury fruits sold at auction for ridiculous prices! But where does that value come from? Is it all a marketing stunt, or do they really taste that good? We see them in the stores and they’re expensive. So ー what is the true value? Let’s go to the Miyazaki Mango Auction and ask the buyer of the world’s most expensive mango and the farmer.
Japanese trains are famous around the world for their style, comfort and speed. In the countryside of Kyoto though, you may not have speed, but you do comfort and style. The Eizan Electric Railway