NEWS OF TRAVEL JAPAN

Shibuya, especially the north-west side of JR Shibuya Station, is the most harmonically chaotic town in the world. I hope everybody who visits Tokyo for sight seeing from a foreign country comes to Shibuya. Exactly you can enjoy the exiting hustle and bustle by only standing in front of the “Shibuya-Ekimae” intersection. I will be happy if some tips of my blog as below help you have more fun. At the Shibuya-Ekimae intersection Approximately five hundred thousand people pass through this intersection every day. Nevertheless the area around this intersection always poises in a time between tumult and harmony. At the time when the traffic signals turn green, about a maximum of five thousand people comes and goes simultaneously. They scramble without bumping to each other on two diagonals and four edges of the square intersection, and many foreign travelers stay in the intersection in order to take photographs. After the lights turning red they disappear from the intersection, many ve...

Ise Shrine (1) Let’s enjoy Oharai-machi After visiting Ise Shrine let’s enjoy our free time at Oharai-machi, where we will reduce our traveling tiredness. Originally Ise Shrine had been for the Imperial Family till the Edo period, but since the Edo period it has opened its doors to all people. Many non-rich people around the corners of Japan were permitted to visit Ise Shrine. And a system aiding them with money and foods was set up. Oharai-machi, which has prospered in front of Ise Shrine (Naigu) since the Edo period in order to relax visitors, has a characteristic atmosphere. Popular Japanese confectionary in Ise “Akafuku”, special noodles in Ise “Ise-Udon” or many foods will relieve your fatigue from traveling.  Tsukiyomi Shrine If you have time to enjoy your traveling around Ise Shrine, I recommend you visit Tsukiyomi Shrine (Tsukiyomi-Gu) where you can go from Oharai-machi in about twenty minutes on foot, because I had sensed the big energy of Kami’s majesty for the fi...

At the 2016 Seven Advanced Countries Summit Conference involving the U.S.A, Great Britain, Germany, France, Canada, Italy, EU and Japan, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe invited leaders from these countries, one of whom was the former President of the U.S.A Barack Obama, to Ise Shrine. Because many foreign news people followed them and saw Ise Shrine, some reports about Ise Shrine might have been aired to the world. This time I would like to write about Ise Shrine, which is the most sacred Japanese shrine, of course it is my challenge to refer to it. It’s good for me to be around Ise Shrine every once in a while. Ise Shrine is a good place to visit, but if you want to get lighthearted enjoyments from traveling in Japan, what you can catch over here would be limited I suppose, I recommend other joyful places to visit. For Japanese people as well, and me too, Ise Shrine is an extraordinary place, it isn’t easy to acquire something good by only seeing it. On the contrary if you want to know som...