japan

Traditional Events

Hina Matsuri -Hina Doll Festival

3rd March is Hina Doll Festival in Japan and the festival is to celebrate for girl's children. Usually displaying a few ...
Travel Highlights

Lake Kasumigaura cruising

Lake Kasumigaura is the second largest lake in Japan. During winter you can see and feed seagulls from a boat. It's a tr...
Farm & Garden

Swiss chards and ice plants in the greenhouse

At the beginning of January The swiss chards grew up very well. Ice plan grew well but it is just one. Other seeds didn'...
Others

Thatched Roof House in Inashiki-city, Ibaraki Part2

The previous article related to the thatched roof house is here. We cut bamboos and gathered some Japanese pampas grass ...
Inashiki in February

Setsubun -Throwing soybeans festival

Have you ever heard of "Setsubun"? Setsubun is one of our traditional festivals and held on the 3rd of February every ye...
Farm & Garden

Japanese Radish in Okaasan’s field

Okaasan(Mitsusans mother) Japanese radishes became big so you can take them!  Fuji Thank you!! Okaasan has been growing ...
Farm & Garden

Carrots and beets

We planted swiss chards and ice plants in the greenhouse and carrots and beets are outside in the middle of October. It ...
Farm & Garden

How to build a water system for greenhouse.

Growing plants in a greenhouse need to consider how to water them. Mitsu-san This water hose is from Israel. Can you see...
Others

Thatched Roof House in Inashiki-city, Ibaraki Part1

It was in August I got information there was a thatched house roof in Inashiki-city, Ibaraki.When I saw that house, I wa...
Inashiki in January

“bisya” festival and making “Shimenawa” Part 2

"Bisya" festival part 1 is here. After making Shimenawa, we brought them back to the guardian got for the area. Gatherin...