Cutting apple into shapes is very popular in Japan. The most common shape is rabbit, which often dresses bento lunch box. It is cute, fun and easy to make!  …

These are slices of pickled cucumbers. Hmm. It looks yummy, doesn’t it?   And this is rice bran paste. Maybe it doesn’t look so yummy…   The cucumber mentioned above…

  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…

Maid café is a cosplay restaurant where waitresses dressed in maid costumes and treat customers as masters and mistresses. It is not too much to say that “maid café” became…

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…

  This is a Japanese traditional hand towel “TENUGUI”. Cherry (sakura) design is so cute! You can also use this for many other purposes according to your wishes. For example,…

The new vending machine appeared in Tokyo Station is a new generation vending machine that advises you what to get by looking at your face.     The touchscreen vending…

– What’s B-LABO? Who’s Bungu-o? –   The product I would like to introduce from B-LABO today is not Japanese, but a gift from Korea to Bungu-o.   A gift?…

  This is a Japanese traditional wrapping cloth called “furoshiki.” Furoshiki have been used in Japan through the ages. They are used mainly for wrapping gifts, but you can also…

This website I am going to introduce today provides a wonderful creative tool! You can play with hiragana and kanji characters to create art piece.     You can play…

Today’s story-teller is anonymous person, talking about Chinese writer Yang Yi. In Japan, it is a hay fever season in March and April and there must be a lot of…