Notices tagged with japan, page 4

All elementary school students in #japan use a Randoseru (ランドセル), a backpack design of Dutch origin.

My friend's kid carries a ton of books! 😨

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randoseru

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The full meal comes with white rice topped with shiso (perilla leaf) and soy beans seasoned with mirin, soy sauce and sugar. All common ingredients sold by every supermarket.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiso
#vegan #japan

I'm spending the night at ryokan in Arima Onsen (有馬温泉), a hot spring resort near Kobe. #japan

They say that Ritsurin let's you enjoy all 4 seasons of Japan.

Too bad I missed the highlight of the spring season: 🌸 花見 (hanami), the cherry blossoms:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanami
#japan #takamatsu #shikoku

And this should be the last of the 4 ponds 🤩
#takamatsu #shikoku #japan

Up until now, Shinjuku Gyoen was my favorite botanical park in the entire world. Now it's at risk of being demoted to second best! 🤩

#takamatsu #shikoku #japan

Ritsurin Koen (栗林公園) is considered one of the finest botanical gardens in #Japan, and also ChatGPT's top sightseeing recommendation for #Takamatsu.

Walking through Takamatsu's shotengai (covered market street).
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sh%C5%8Dtengai
#takamatsu #japan

So how do you call a cab in Japan? Easy, you use Taxi Japan! 👍

...which has been replaced by a thing called GO 😠

...which requires a Japanese phone number 🤬

Luckily, a kind shopkeeper called the taxi for me. 🙏

No, Uber and Lyft are being kept out of #Japan, probably by anti- competitive laws 😒

Surprisingly, there were no buses going down from Yashima for 2 hours, so I took a taxi.

Those white fabric lace covers have a long tradition in Japanese taxis, while the plastic curtain must be a post-COVID thing. #japan

The weather is too hazy to see the Seto-Ōhashi, one of the three bridges across the Inland Sea (瀬戸内海, seto nai kai).

I will cross it tomorrow by train.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seto_Inland_Sea
#japan #shikoku

These are definitely torii. They're a shinto thing, but also a common sight in Buddhist temples.

The statue on the left is a tanuki, and the other is... a mother tanuki breast feeding a baby tanuki? 🤨

#shinto #buddhism #japan

Fully stacked vegetarian okonomiyaki! 😋

#vegetarian #japan #food

First manhoru (*) of the week spotted. This one is in たかまつし (Takamatsu city).

(*) Japanese man hole covers #japan

Before leaving, we hit another location featured in Karakai Jouzu no Takagi-san 😁

#takagisan #anime #japan

I didn't think of videoing us while catching the sōmen carried by flowing water, so here's some stock footage of this popular Japanese tradition:
https://youtu.be/OPiQ5nZ_olg
#japan

We hit another Takagi-san location, but we're on the opposite side of the arches, with the red and white tower behind. #anime #takagisan #japan

The Shōdo island is known for its olive trees, something that's not portrayed in Takagi-san's anime (or I didn't notice).
#anime #japan

The entire ship is themed after Karakai Jouzu no Takagi-san. Being featured In a popular anime series brings a lot of tourism these days.

#anime #japan