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Hello from Kansai!
Just want to share photos.
This is my favorite place in Kyoto.

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My parents are coming to visit in the beginning of May, and I was wondering if anybody knew of any decent antique stores in Tokyo or Kyoto I can take my mom to. By antique stores, I don't mean really expensive collections of art and furniture, where you can't touch anything and everything is delicately displayed...I grew up in North Carolina, ( Read more... )

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• Target: Kyoto City Mayor Kadokawa Daisaku
• Sponsored by: Kyoto Citizens Against the Aquarium

The city government of Kyoto has given the go-ahead to plans for a mammoth aquarium to be built on Umekoji public park. This will be operated by a private company Orix Corporation. Despite strong public protest, construction of the aquarium began on ( Read more... )

Hello everyone!  I'm Ivy, and I'm in Kyoto for a year as an exchange student.  I'm from Vancouver, Canada, so I never really had a problem with mosquito bites.  But two days ago, I had an orientation session for my university which lasted until approximately 8pm, and as the weather was hot, I was wearing shorts.  On that night alone, I was bitten ( Read more... )

Catching the Spirit

Here is rare opportunity to hear two fine, recently published writers speak about discovering the spiritual richness of Japan. Rebecca Otowa, author of At Home in Japan: A Foreign Woman's Journey of Discovery and Andy Couturier, author of A Different Kind of Luxury: Japanese Lessons in Simple Living and Inner Abundance will ( Read more... )

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I'll be coming to Kyoto for the Jerome Rothenberg reading/lecture on the evening of March 22.  I'll be arriving in Kyoto the morning of the 22nd, and am looking for ways to amuse myself until the talk.  I've lived in Japan for years, and have been to Kyoto several times, so off-the-beaten-track temples, shops, cafes, hikes, mountains, walks, ( Read more... )

JAPAN INTERNATIONAL POETRY SOCIETY March, 2010, Kyoto Our special guest, visiting from the U.S., will be the internationally renowned American poet MR. JEROME ROTHENBERG. Date: March 22, 2010 (Monday, National Holiday) 18:00-21:00 Venue: Heartpia Kyoto, Conference Room # 3 (ハートピア京都、第三会議室） http://www.heartpiakyoto. ( Read more... )