Do you like Japanese rice crackers, known as “senbei”? If you are indeed a senbei lover, you might have heard about “Soka senbei”,which is one of the most well…

“Gohyaku-rakan” means the five hundred stone buddhas, there are some temples where they have “Gohyaku-rakan” at in Japan.     Looking at the each buddha closely, they sit in a huge…

Today, I would like to introduce and article about an interesting department store in Saitama Pref. Department stores are very popular not only for its beautifully-displayed shops, wide variety of…

  Early this month, the 29th Haji-sai festival was held at Washimiya Shrine in Kuki, Saitama Prefecture. The festival used to be a typical Japanese summer festival where local people…

Visual-kei music festival, “V-ROCK FESTIVAL’11” will be held at Saitama Super Arena in Saitama on October 23, 2011. Visual-kei is a Japanese music genre related to rock, punk and metal,…

Visiting anime or manga related place is called “pilgrimage to the Holy Land (seichi junrei)” among fans. The most popular destination used to be Washimiya-machi in Saitama Prefecture, where the…

The Metropolitan Area Outer Underground Discharge Channel is the world largest flood alleviation establishment in Kasukabe, Saitama. Completed building in June 2006, it discharges water into the Edo River during…

Let me introduce a blog post from my favorite Japanese entertainment blog as usual.   It is Saitama city, Saitama Prefecture near Tokyo. The blogger saw a cylindrical object made…