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September 18, 2015
If you could recall Tom Cruise’s ‘The Last Samurai’ movie produced back in 2003, it is interesting to know that the movie was inspired based on […]
September 11, 2015
Standing at 107 meters tall, this Goryokaku Tower is a must visit whenever you are in Hakodate, a city on Japan's northern island of Hokkaido.
September 5, 2015
Beautiful. That was the first thing that came to mind when we first saw this national treasure. Standing at 41.5cm, this Hollow Clay Figure nicknamed as […]
August 18, 2015
Nestled at the heart of Sapporo in the district of Susukino is the famous Ramen Alley. Like its name, Ramen Alley is a narrow alley lined […]
August 4, 2015
Located 112km to the south of Sapporo, Japan lies the Jigoku-dani onsen town of Noboribetsu. Jigoku-dani or Hell Valley is a 24 acre geothermal crater […]
July 21, 2015
What started as a soft chant… ‘wa shai… wa shai… wa shai’, slowly began to get louder and louder as a group of men and women […]
July 9, 2015
This is a picture of a lovely lady at the main entrance of the Hokkaido Shrine in Sapporo Japan. What captured our attention was the beautiful […]
June 29, 2015
In our recent trip to Japan, we had the opportunity to visit the beautiful Mt Hokkaido Komagatake, one of the famous active volcanic mountain on the […]