2017年2月26日日曜日

A hand-made pan cake to celebrate the Girls' Festival on March 3

My wife and daughter made a pan cake.
It was so yummy.



Hina Dolls

In Japan, March 3rd is a special day for girls.
Parents and relatives celebrate girls' healthy growing.
They display Hina ningyo (Hina dolls) to celebrate their girls.
My daughter has her own dolls and my wife has
another ones. Therefore, I can see two sets of Hina dolls.
What a lucky guy I am!

This is my daughter's Hina dolls. My father brought
 my daughter this dolls ten years ago.
This dolls are Keepsake of father to me. 
This is my wife's ones. It looks little old, but, I can't
help but feel a kind of nostalgia from this.

I visited the Hirakawa Tengin-gu






2017年2月21日火曜日

Today, I went to the central Tokyo to do some sightseeing.

Today is a good Sunday to me,
it's because I don't have things
to have to do. Therefore, I decided to
walk at the central Tokyo;
IIdabashi, Kagurazaka and Kudan-shita.
There is so-called up-town in old days.
I could watch many temples and
shrines there. I'd like to recommend
foreign travelers to visit there
if they would come to Japan.  

I got of a train in the Iidabashi station.
A entrance of a shrine

The barrels of Japanese sake;
They are presents for Gods.

This is an old styled restaurant.

These are water pails.
As Japanese old custum,
People use them to water tombs.

A narrow array.
At first, it was so narrow that I couldn't believe
 I could walk on it.

A typical temple

I found the Philippine embassy.

The outlook of the embassy

The entrance of the Yasukuni shrine.
It was so beautiful place.


I got on a train on the Ichigo ya station to return home.