Last Saturday, we went to Sapporo Dome Stadium and watched a baseball game, the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters versus the Seibu Lions. It was last time for us to visit there, because the Fighters will move to a new home stadium in Kita-Hiros…

We stayed at Sapporo in central Hokkaido last weekend and visited Shiraoi town south of Sapporo. It takes one hour by JR train to get there. In the town, there is the UPOPOY a kind of theme park where you can learn about the Ainu people an…

I have visited the Oku-Aizu area in Fukusima prefecture many times on business and as a tourist. This region is located in the mountainous area 250km north of Tokyo. I sometimes went to there by the Tadami railway line. This line is origin…

My wife, my friends and I went to Minami-Sanriku and Ishinomaki in Miyagi prefecture on the 20th and 21st August. We stayed one night and enjoyed the local food around the seaside. On Sunday, we visited the Great east Japan Earthquake memo…