Category Archives: Home & Garden

A Building Looks Like a Portable Shrine

  This is about a little weird building in Japan. The building is near [W:Lake Biwa], which is the largest lake in Japan and one of the popular tourist sites….

Various Designs are Available for Butsudan – Shrine for Home –

Home-sized-shrine-in-cabinet are often found in Japanese houses. We call them butsudan, and the owners use them to worship Buddha and the deceased in the families.  

Japanese Traditional Style Unique Chair

    This is a Japanese style healthy chair.  

Japanese Traditional Style IRORI (cooking pan)

    This is a Japanese traditional pan.   It’s so COOL, isn’t it?   This is JAPAN Style!     You should follow me on Twitter HERE.   If…

New Style Plant Pot Found on the Corner of Japanese Street

Numerous plant pots in the world but these pots must be strange to you. These plant pots found in front of a shop in Japan are RAIN BOOTS! Because the…

Amazing House Reform Show “BEFORE AFTER” Part 3

  “Before After” is a Japanese house remodeling TV show, which redesigns a horrible house to a beautiful functional house. If you haven’t read and watch the part 1, please…

World First Double Head Iron by Panasonic

    Panasonic announced they will release its new cordless double head steam iron “Caruru” on February 10 in Japan.   Caruru is designed like a rugby ball. It’s symmetrical…

Japanese Stylish Humidifiers

Even though Japan is an island, it gets really dry during winter.

Weird Places in Japan: Part1 — 70’s Futuristic Architectures

<Nakagin Capsule Tower> The world first studio type capsule condo was designed and built by [W:Kisho Kurokawa] in 1972. It looks like stacked toy blocks, very playful and fun. In…

Amazing Japanese House Reform Show “BEFORE AFTER” Part 2

“Before After” is a Japanese house remodeling show, which redesigns a horrible house to a beautiful functional house. If you haven’t read and watch the PART 1, please check it…

Japanese House Reform Show “BEFORE AFTER That’s a DRAMATIC CHANGE!”

  This Japanese TV show, “Before After”, is a house remodeling show that each time a top class architect reforms a horrible house in Japan.   The architects in the…

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