May 5, 2019• by japon1minuto
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...
May 2, 2019• by japon1minuto
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...
Apr 28, 2019• by japon1minuto
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...
Apr 17, 2019• by japon1minuto
Personally I think Kyoto is the city that shows the best Japan, or how we have it in our imagination. If Tokyo is modernity and Japan is more current, Kyoto is the most ancestral Japan that...
Apr 15, 2019• by japon1minuto
In 1994, 14 of its temples and palaces were declared a World Heritage Site, including the Nijo castle, all of which are hundreds of years old. It is a city that has had a decisive influence on the...
Apr 12, 2019• by japon1minuto
Kyoto is the Japanese city with more vestiges of the past, was not bombed in the Second World War, because apparently responsible for organizing such bombings had spent his honeymoon there and fell...
Youth Hostel transformed from a bathhouse near Osaka Castle