The festival has been held annually on August 15 for 300 years. It is designated as a nation’s intangible folklore cultural assets. The large torch has a diameter of 1.5…

Ukimido looks like it’s floating on a pond. Tokae Light Festival is held around Nara park in summer. Copyright(C) Miki   →Miki’s twitter← (English is OK)

Ice and snow festival was held at Heijokyu ruins on July 24 (In the middle of summer!). Kids were all excited. You can see Suzakumon in the background.Copyright(C) Miki  …

It’s been very hot summer in Japan, so no wonder this product caught people’s attentions here.    

A creepy monster train, called “yokai densha,” has been running in Kyoto since last week. “Densha” means train, and “yokai” are monsters in Japanese folk tales. In the black lighted…

      In Japan, “obake-yashiki (haunted house)” is considered as a summer thing. In recent years, summer-limited-open haunted houses have been increasing.  

  Today, I want to introduce some Japanese pop summer songs! I picked four songs from different types of singers and bands. The first song is a five-girl pop band,…

In Japan, original flavored Pepsi have been released by Suntory for a limited time only. Some are good but some are weird… Let’s look at examples! Pepsi Cucumber (2007)  …

  July 7 is Tanabata, Star Festival, in Japan. It has already passed but let me introduce Tanabata, one of the summer traditions in Japan. I have introduced about Tanabata…

  The other day, I introduce Toy Train in [W:Wakayama Prefecture]. Here is another fun train runs in [W:Okayama Prefecture]. This train (it is a type of streetcar) has furin…

July is almost over and Japan is in midsummer. We are hit by a 35 degree-centigrade heat wave. No wonder I have been thinking it’s hotter this summer. I go…