Click on photo or link to read the feature • Beyond TokyoLet’s explore an amazing Japanese design site that turns landscape into art! All my friends told me I should run—not walk—to see the Enoura Observatory. Not one of them could quite explain why. Or even describe what it was. Once I got there, though, IContinueContinue reading “JUNE 2025”
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JUN 2024
Click on photo or link to read the feature • The Thing I Learned Today:The Mingei Movement celebrates the high art of ordinary things in all new ways From brooms to lamps to dishware, what makes Mingei art so different from all others is that every piece is useful—not merely decorative—and is made by ordinaryContinueContinue reading “JUN 2024”
SEP-OCT 2023
Click on photo or link to read the feature • Seasonal Secret:Halloween costumes I would regret I love Halloween in Japan, because the costumes are so hilariously and bafflingly unlike something ANYONE would wear to a party where I come from. Let’s plunge into the most baffling of the baffling and the most inexplicable ofContinueContinue reading “SEP-OCT 2023”
JUL-AUG 2023
Click on photo or link to read the feature • Seasonal Secret:Splashparks: Tokyo’s secret summer delight You don’t have to be a kid to fling socks and shoes to the wind and dip your hot, tired feet in these inviting summertime streams, pools and fountains. Best of all, these are all in public parks, soContinueContinue reading “JUL-AUG 2023”
MAY-JUN 2023
Click on photo or link to read the feature • Seasonal Secret:It’s Fluttering Fish Flag Season! Few sights are more delightful than a school of fish flags fluttering against the spring sky. They only appear in the month before Children’s Day on May 5, so now is the time to seek out the biggest andContinueContinue reading “MAY-JUN 2023”
MAY-JUN 2021
Click on photo or link to read the feature Seasonal Secret: Seven things you didn’t know about Japanese weddings From fake priests to Barbie princess gowns, Japanese weddings are a whole different ballgame…read more • Beyond Tokyo: Come for the purple, stay for the lights The Ashikaga Flower Park not only boasts insanely huge wisteria,ContinueContinue reading “MAY-JUN 2021”
JUNE 2020
Click on photo to read the feature Seasonal Secret for June: How to stay cool in the summer, the Japanese way Five ways that the Japanese have traditionally survived the miserably hot & humid summer months. Some actually work, and some rely on powers of imagination that this foreigner can only aspire to…read more •ContinueContinue reading “JUNE 2020”
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