Japan travel tips and ideas to plan you trip and decide where to go

07 Jul

Field 2008, Field Journal, Japan Culture facts, Japan Travel Tips

Tanabata 七夕: the night of the loving stars

July the 7th is the Japanese night of the lovers reunion, the night in which the Weaving Princess and the Cow Herder can finally cross the Amanogawa river - the Milky Way - and meet again. Love in the...

31 May

Field 2012, Galleries, Japan Travel Tips

Welcome to Hell: Mount Osore

Mount Osore, whose name is generally translated with Dread Mountain, is a sacred mountain raising in the middle of the Shimokita peninsula 下北半島, in the northern part of Aomori Prefecture. This isolated location, at the...

31 May

Field 2008, Field Journal, Japan Travel Tips

Okazaki for beginners

As far as I could perceive at that time, Okazaki is a medium-sized city, laying on wavy hills and crossed by the river Yahagi. Being used to the italian and european cities, the first thing that...

29 May

Field 2008, Field Journal, Japan Travel Tips

First days in Okazaki

Posted by Marianna Zanetta
Fieldwork, Japan, nagoya, Okazaki, travel
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11 February 2019

I received instructions to call the school once in Okazaki, in order to have the school shuttle to pick me up. Let me repeat it. I had to speak at the phone (a huge effort for me), in...

22 Sep

Field Journal, Japan Travel Tips

Japan travel tips: first time Nagoya

Posted by Marianna Zanetta
Japan, nagoya, travel
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11 February 2019

During my very first travel of Japan, I remember my first trip to Nagoya, in the heat of a july weekend: I left from Okazaki with some friends to reach Nagoya Castle and then...

22 Sep

Field 2008, Field Journal, Japan Travel Tips

Japan travel tips: Hiroshima mon amour

NEW VIDEO INSIDE! Among the trips that most left a sign in my eyes and (romantically) in my soul, I must mention my four-day trip di Hiroshima, and I must suggest you visit it too....

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