Travels

KUMBH MELA MAUNI AMAVASYA
Mauni Amavasya is also known as Mauni Amavas. As name suggests it is also the day of silence in Hinduism when people take pledge to observe one day fasting by not uttering a word throughout the day. It is believed that the water of the most sacred and holy river in Hinduism, […]

KUMBH MELA POP UP CITY
The Uttar Pradesh government says that more than 250 million people, including one million foreign tourists, are expected to attend Kumbh Mela, the eight-week festival.
The Kumbh Mela is traditionally held every three years in one of four cities along India’s sacred rivers. During the Kumbh Mela, to be held in Prayagraj in […]

JAPANESE CASTLES
Japanese castles (城, shiro) were fortresses constructed primarily of wood and stone. They evolved from the wooden stockades of earlier centuries, and came into their best-known form in the 16th century. Castles in Japan were built to guard important or strategic sites, such as ports, river crossings, or crossroads, and almost always incorporated the […]

MOUNT KOYA JAPAN
Il monte Kōya (高野山, Kōya-san) si trova nella penisola di Kii (紀伊半島, Kii Hantō), a sud della città di Osaka, nella prefettura di Wakayama.
È considerato uno dei luoghi più sacri del Giappone ed uno dei maggiori centri monastici del Paese. Fondato 12 secoli fa dal monaco Kūkai (空海, 774–835), conosciuto anche come Kōbō-Daishi […]

SHRINES

SHIKOKU JAPAN

NAGASAKI PEACE PARK
Established in 1955, and near to the hypocenter of the explosion, remnants of a concrete wall of Urakami Cathedral can still be seen. Urakami Cathedral was the grandest church in east Asia at the time. At the park’s north end is the 10-meter-tall Peace Statue created by sculptor Seibo Kitamura of Nagasaki Prefecture. […]

KYUSHU
Kyūshū (九州? letteralmente “nove province”) è la terza, in ordine di grandezza, tra le quattro maggiori isole dell’arcipelago giapponese. È situata nella parte sud-occidentale ed è vicina alle isole di Shikoku e di Honshū. Sulla costa sud-occidentale dell’isola è situata la città di Nagasaki, capitale dell’omonima prefettura. È considerato il luogo di nascita della civiltà […]

MIYAJIMA ISLAND
Itsukushima (厳島) is an island in the western part of the Inland Sea of Japan, located in the northwest of Hiroshima Bay. It is popularly known as Miyajima (宮島), which in Japanese means “Shrine Island”. The island is one of Hayashi Gahō’s Three Views of Japan specified in 1643. Itsukushima is part of the […]

HIROSHIMA PEACE MEMORIAL PARK
Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park (広島平和記念公園, Hiroshima Heiwa Kinen Kōen) is a memorial park in the center of Hiroshima, Japan. It is dedicated to the legacy of Hiroshima as the first city in the world to suffer a nuclear attack, and to the memories of the bomb’s direct and indirect victims (of whom […]

HIROSHIMA PEACE MEMORIAL PARK
Fondato nel 1955, il museo, progettato da Kenzō Tange, nacque per ricordare la tragedia accaduta alla città di Hiroshima dieci anni prima, ovvero il bombardamento nucleare operato dagli statunitensi al termine della seconda guerra mondiale.
Nel gennaio del 2013 il curatore del museo Koichiro Maeda rese noto che negli archivi della Honkawa Elementary […]

RED CROWNED CRANE
If any bird deserves the accolade, then the crane should be considered the fashion model of the bird world: tall, slim, long-legged, and always elegant.
The Red-crowned, or Japanese, Crane is a potent icon. In symbolic form, Tancho, as it is known in Japanese, is the bird of happiness and long life (in fable […]

ABASHIRI DRIFT ICE CRUISE
Abashiri is located at 44 degrees north latitude, and the shores of Okhotsk are the Southernmost point where the ocean freezes.
Drift ice sightseeing ” icebreaking ship Aurora takes you out amid the shocking brilliance ” whiteness of the ice that spreads South around the Amur river in midwinter.
The greatest river in the […]

HOKKAIDO
Hokkaido (北海道, Hokkaidō, literally “Northern Sea Circuit”), formerly known as Ezo, Yezo, Yeso, or Yesso, is the second largest island of Japan, and the largest and northernmost prefecture. The Tsugaru Strait separates Hokkaido from Honshu. The two islands are connected by the undersea railway Seikan Tunnel. The largest city on Hokkaido is its capital, Sapporo, […]

SAPPORO SNOW FESTIVAL
The Sapporo Snow Festival (さっぽろ雪まつり, Sapporo Yuki-matsuri) is a festival held annually in Sapporo, Japan, over seven days in February. Odori Park, Susukino, and Tsudome are the main sites of the festival. The 2017 Snow Festival dates are 6 to 12 February at the Odori and Suskino sites and 1 to 12 February […]

SOUNKYO ICE FESTIVAL HOKKAIDO
Sounkyo Ice Waterfall Festival is a snow event held in Sounkyo Onsen, Kamikawa Town located in the eastern part of Asahikawa city. It was held for the first time in 1976, and it is held from late January to late March every year. In Ishikari River riverbank of 10,000 m2, about 30 large and […]