How to walk around the Sapporo Snow Festival
Do you know about the Sapporo Snow Festival? It is an annual festival which is held in February in Sapporo, which is located in the center of Hokkaido and has …
My Year – from a tree –
Hi! I’m a tree. I live in a park in Japan. Here’s my year-round diary. ♪April Excited and a bit nervous first graders with yellow hats and brand-new randoseru show …
How To Enjoy Yatai In Fukuoka
Today, I’m going to tell you about how to enjoy Yatai. What’s Yatai? They are stalls, the places where you can eat food outside. The traditional stall Japanese stall style …
Unraveling the Unique Osaka-ben (Part 2)
Hello, everyone! In the previous article, I wrote about “-nen (ねん)” and “-yanen (やねん),” which correspond to the Osaka dialect’s well-known sentence endings in standard Japanese for the present tense, …
Auspicious Plants ー Pine, Bamboo, and Japanese Plum
Are you familiar with these three Japanese plants 松 (matsu), 竹 (take), and 梅 (ume)? These are pine, bamboo, and Japanese plum respectively. Japanese people often refer to them altogether …
Fermented enzyme lemon syrup
Fermented foods are deeply permeated into daily life in Japan. There are many kinds, such as miso, natto, and pickled vegetables. I make my homemade miso every year, and I’ve …
Japanese Hayashi Rice
Hayashi Rice is a popular and comforting dish in Japanese cuisine. It is a Western-style dish with Japanese adaptations, typically featuring a thick, flavorful beef and onion stew served over …
Unique Train Stations in Japan
Traveling is one of the most enjoyable things in one’s lifetime. What do you enjoy doing during your trip? Could it be sightseeing, food, an attraction, or simply meeting someone? …
How to Enjoy Tsukiji Outer Market
Tsukiji Outer Market is known as “Tsukiji Jogai Shijyo (築地場外市場). Shijyo (市場) means market. The market have been transferred to Toyosu (豊洲) in 2018. Even now, there are a lot …
Unique Way to Count Things in Japanese
How do you count in English? In English, you can add “One, two, three, four…” in front of the object for most things, except for some peculiar circumstances when wanting …