July Festivals Around Nagoya and Beyond
Jun 13, 2019 By Bert Wishart
Though the air is getting hot and sticky and permanently filled with the perma-drone of cicadas, July is perhaps one of the best months in Japan (and not just because...[ Click to read more ]
Belgian Beer Weekend Nagoya
Mar 21, 2019 By Ray Proper
The famous Belgian Beer Weekend traditionally takes place the first weekend of September at the beautiful “Grand Place of Brussels." The Japan versions of this event? Not in September! Belgian...[ Click to read more ]
Things are Hotting up at Toba no Himatsuri Fire Festival
Jan 28, 2019 By Bert Wishart
Aichi sees a fair number of harvest festivals around the start of the Chinese New Year, with communities praying that their crops in the coming year will be bountiful and...[ Click to read more ]
Free Places to Visit During the Nagoya Festival
Sep 27, 2018 By Bert Wishart
Nagoya has a long and rich history, and The Nagoya Festival is a great time to celebrate this great city in which we live. Of course, the parade through the...[ Click to read more ]
Discovering Japan at the Japanese Folk Festival and Cultural Fair
Sep 27, 2018 By Bert Wishart
One of the great pleasures of living in Japan is discovering the wide array of cultural differences that we encounter. From arts to food to ways of life, it is...[ Click to read more ]
Toyohashi Fire Festival: Things are about to go off!
Aug 29, 2018 By Bert Wishart
While there are many, many fireworks festivals in Japan throughout the summer months, there are very few that match Toyohashi's Hono-no-Saiten for sheer spectacle. And danger. About Hono-no-Saiten The Hono-no-Saiten...[ Click to read more ]
Getting to Know You: Nagoya’s Endoji Street
Jul 30, 2018 By Bert Wishart
For so long the area of Osu has been considered Nagoya's district of cool, but for those in the know, it is Endoji, a stone's throw from Meieki, that is...[ Click to read more ]
Buying Summer Yukata in Nagoya
Jul 27, 2018 By Bert Wishart
If you have been to any of this summer's fireworks festivals around Nagoya and Aichi you may have noticed many people wearing traditional Japanese dress and wondered what was going...[ Click to read more ]
Atsuta Shrine Festival in Nagoya
May 18, 2018 By Ray Proper
Atsuta Jingu, ranks in importance second only to the Great Shrine of Ise in Mie, which is the center of the Shinto religion in Japan, and draws over 9 million...[ Click to read more ]
Tebasaki Summit – Scaling the Heights of Nagoya’s Most Famed Food
May 16, 2018 By Bert Wishart
Americans could be forgiven for thinking that chicken wings come from Buffalo, and Brits may think of them as that bit of the Sunday roast that no one really wants,...[ Click to read more ]
