A tea ceremony will be held in the mud-dyed tea room at "Shintaro Ajioka's Yutani House" under the dappled sunlight filtering through the fresh green leaves.

I attended a tea ceremony held in a "mud-dyed tea room," a work by artist Shintaro Ajioka, set up in a forest overlooking the Itajiki River, nestled between the Ure River and the JR Iida Line near Yutani Onsen in Shinshiro City, Aichi Prefecture! Between Toyohashi Station (Aichi Prefecture) and Tatsuno Station (Nagano Prefecture), a distance of 195.7km, there were 94...

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A unique collaboration sake between "Pac-Man 40th Anniversary" and enka singer Takashi Hosokawa, who is celebrating his 45th anniversary.

イベント等でお世話になっている「株式会社 細川たかし音楽事務所」の代表取締役社長である藤井達也さんに「影山メロン農園」の天使音マスクメロンを贈らせていただいたところ、大変喜んでくださったようで素敵な贈り物が届きました! ...

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"Okonomiyaki Kokoro": A crispy new texture thanks to the tempura batter! The inside is fluffy and moist, and the spring cabbage is sweet!

Along the street in Sumiyoshi, near Seirei Hamamatsu Hospital, there's a shop with a noren (traditional Japanese curtain) displaying the three hiragana characters "Kokoro". It opened in April 2007 and is celebrating its 8th anniversary this year, 2015. Since coming to Hamamatsu, "Kokoro-san" has become my go-to place for okonomiyaki...

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