Have you ever seen something like this out in front of a noodle shop? I’m not sure if this kind of sign can be seen in your country as well,…

You can see them along Tanigawa, in Idecho Kyoto, near Nara as well. Copyright(C) Miki     →Miki’s twitter← (English is OK)

  Have you heard the word itasha? It is an otaku word meaning “pain-mobile,” which refers a car decorated with characters, usually female, from anime, manga, or video games. Last…

Today’s story-teller is Hiroshi Sakagami, 74 years old. About 4 years ago, S, who lived upstairs of Sakagami’s office building, wanted to study information science. S was an exchange student…

Ukimido (in Nara Park) looks like it’s floating on a pond. Copyright(C) Miki   →Miki’s twitter← (English is OK)

The number of auto-campers has been increasing since the late 2000’s. Auto-camping is called “shachu-haku” in Japanese and it means staying overnight in a car parked at a roadside station…

– What’s B-LABO? Who’s Bungu-o? –     Should you buy this dice or not? That’s the problem… When you can’t make a decision, just throw the dice!    …

I am going to start a new section on my blog! It is an experimental section to introduce a photoblog posting mainly beautiful sceneries in Japan daily. Miki, a Japanese…

There are so many girls’ idol groups in Japan, and dozens of groups are active in the forefront. Singing and dancing are the basic skills to the idols, but this…

Let me introduce a Japanese entertainment website that I check often. One day, a picture of a unique construction product was introduced in the website.     The blogger saw…

We can’t live without making any waste. We separate and take out trash on the day a garbage truck comes. It is probably the same in your country.    …