One of the topics I pick up various times in Japan Style is things Associated with “Vending machine”. I like vending machines very much, so I got into picking up…

Sending greeting cards for the Christmas season and the upcoming new year is common in many countries. Also in Japan, we have a traditional custom to send season’s greeting cards…

  Most department stores in Japan start New Year’s sale today, and sell fukubukuro, “lucky bags” that are filled with random items. In recent years, lucky bags are highly diversified….

  This is a Japanese traditional ornament. This Kagami Mochi (rice cake) usually consists of two round mochi. This product for New Year decoration and fake food (Don’t eat ^^)….

Have you ever seen huge bells like this?   A typical bell seen at Japanese Buddhist temples.   In Japan, each temple has a large bell, and we customarily ring…

  Christmas has come! 😛 It is one of the exciting days in a year here in Japan but Japanese Christmas can be very different from that of Europe and…

Shitamachi is the traditional shopping, entertainment and residential districts of Tokyo. A hundred year ago, the area still had the taste of good old days of Edo period (1603 to…

  This is a Japanese traditional hand towel “Tenugui”. Poetry of Mitsuo Aida is written on this tenugui. It is also suitable for KENDO head cloth. The translation is like…

  This is one of the famous seasonal views of December in Asakusa, Tokyo. Something with lovely painted design is floating in the blue sky! That is called hagoita. Since the…

  This is a Japanese NETSUKE (owl) using Nanbu Iron. (1P) This type of quiet design can be used for long time. [About Nanbu Iron…]Recently, Nanbu Iron has increasingly gained…

As you may know, Japan has a culture of public bathing. It is sometimes very hard for foreigners to accept this concept, but for Japanese people, it is mostly fun…