One of the things you should look into is visiting Japanese gardens. You can often find them at Temples, Shrines, Parks and Hotels. Those pictures are taken at New Otani Hotel in Alaska, Tokyo.

The biggest city in the State of Washington is Seattle. And Seattle is a sister city of Kobe, Hyogo, Japan. Both are harbor and port city.

Have you ever heard about the hotel called APA Hotel.It is very successful chain of hotel in Japan. Rooms are very small but they are very clean. It includes buffet breakfast. It is usually cheaper than most other hotels. It is a good alternative to city hotels.

For Japanese, Cherry Blossom has a lot of meaning. There are many songs that names include "Sakura". Sakura usually mean short but beautiful life. Also the Sakura represents "Graduation".Here are some songs that are called "Sakura"Japanese Folk Songhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoTavO4Zbi4Hit Song...

Have a Happy Easter!Easter is holiday Japanese people do not celebrate. Japan is usually good at commercializing all holidays.

Uchikura & Co is looking for a distributor in the US and Canada for this colored sawdust painting kit from Japan. If you are looking for something unique to sell, please let us know. We can private label the product as well.Kenichi UchikuraUCHIKURA & CO LLCCEO / Founder1404 140th Place NE, Bellevue,...

Product naming in Japan.There are many products in Japan that has alphabets as the name. "Calpis" and "Creap" are very famous for weird names for westerners. Japanese people do not understand the meaning of the sound or the meaning itself to know if the product name sound funny.This is not funny nam...

Japanese people likes to sit, eat and drink around cherry trees. It is called Ohanami (お花見). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanami

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Do you like Japanese Sake?For a while Japanese sake consumption in Japan was down but recently sake is coming back due to the effort from the Sakagura 酒蔵 in Japan. There are many 地酒 Local Sake in Japan as well.When you visit Japan and if you are over the drinking age of 20 (not 19 nor 21), you can e...