NEWS OF TRAVEL JAPAN

Present-days cherry trees that we normally see in towns are a breed called “Someiyosino”, which was bred in the middle of the Edo period of the eighteenth century. Someiyoshino blooms rapidly in spring and the aspects of the full blooming are beautiful, and people can enjoy holding parties beneath cherry blossoms of Someiyoshino. Furthermore, immediate falling petals of blossoms is emotional with reluctance. Japanese people have loved such aspects, so it might have been the reason that someiyoshino spread to every corner of Japan. Someiyoshino isn’t a normal tree and all the genes of someiyoshino in every place are the same, yes those are clones. By the way, the origins of the cherry trees are mountain-cherry trees in the mountains. Probably those might not have been very different from other mountainous trees with blossoms. Nonetheless, some characteristics of mountain-cherry blossoms might have influenced the old Japanese people. This time I will write about mountain-cherry tre...

In a disaster we had better face the disaster. It is the words of Buddhism, but actually, my mind is outside of the words. On holidays my wife and I have stayed home as much as possible since the middle of February. It is due to coronavirus. Contrarily, to restrict our activities strongly leads to our mind being steeped in somber and such somber mind decreases the energy of immunity. And our spending during a short outing may help the economy even though it might be a small step. Besides, the war against COVID-19 is continuing and the end cannot be seen. In the end, we determined we had better shift our last stage of restraining during holidays to the next stage of striking a balance between not to be infected and to make adequate activity to keep the force of our immunity. So then, we decided to go to the Arima-spring-town, Kobe. The Origin of Arima-Springs Firstly, we visited Arima Hot-Spring Shrine. The shrine is on the middle of a hill and the long stone-stairs were in front ...