Sadako and the thousand cranes

Since I was a child I liked to read, I suppose my father, also a regular reader, made me fall in love with reading by recommending titles. One of them was "Sadako wants to live" by Karl Bruckner. The...

Kanazawa essential

Kanazawa is a city of almost half a million inhabitants located on the west coast of Japan, located between the Sea of Japan and the Japanese Alps. Immerse yourself in the streets of its old...

Kamakura essential

Coastal city located south of Tokyo which is an important center of both local and foreign tourism. Among its multitut of temples highlights the Great Buddha (Kotoku-in) with an impressive bronze...

Kodomo no Hi こどもの日, Children's Day

Surely we have all seen this type of flags in the form of tents, their name is koinobori (鯉 幟) or Satsuki-nobori (皐 幟, さ つ き の ぼ り) and are the traditional Japanese flags that are...

Nara essential

Nara was the first capital of Japan in medieval times, and still retains a large number of temples that are part of the World Heritage, since 1998, as Historical Monuments of ancient Nara. The symbol...

Hiroshima essential

Hiroshima is a city of more than one million inhabitants located in southern Japan, sadly famous for being the scene of the explosion of the first atomic bomb, but in addition to the memorial of...