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Yatai Food Stalls of Fukuoka

Yatai are small food stalls selling a variety of delicious Japanese street food including Ramen, Oden and Yakitori. They were once popular throughout Japan but are nowadays more prevalent in the city of Fukuoka. One of the most popular places to eat Yatai food is along the Naka river where the photos shown here were taken. Perhaps the best way to enjoy Yatai is to move from one cart to the other for a chance to sample a diversity of Japanese delicacies.

Yatai Food Stalls Along The Naka River In Fukuoka

Ramen Yatai Food Stall In Fukuoka

Yatai Food Stalls In Fukuoka

Japanese Skewers

Chef at a Yatai In Fukuoka

Customers Eating At A Yatai In Fukuoka

Yatai Cook

Japanese Oden

Typical Yatai Of Fukuoka City

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Country: Japan
Area : Kyushu area
Prefecture : Fukuoka-ken
City : Fukuoka-shi
District : Nakasu

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The Japanese Mansion

A Japanese mansion, pronounced manshon, is not a large and expensive house the name would suggest. Mansion is used in Japanese to describe a typical apartment complex. Interestingly, individual apartments at mansions are usually accessed from outside through a balcony running along the building. Although everyone has access to this balcony, it lacks privacy and seems rarely used to enjoy nice weather or eat outside. The latter is not popular in Japan and terraces at restaurants are practically nonexistent. The mansion is well adapted to the Japanese climate, which rarely justifies the necessity of access corridors to protect inhabitants from the cold.

Japanese Mansion At Night

Japanese Mansion And Shiomi Station

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Kaikaro Teahouse in Higashi Chaya District

The Kaikaro Teahouse is located in Kanazawa’s Higashi Chaya (East Teahouse) district. Japanese teahouses are traditional establishments where guests may be entertained by Geishas. While most of those establishments are exclusive, the Kaikaro Teahouse is open to the public. The teahouse features many lavishly decorated rooms on the second floor. The visit includes tea and a traditional Japanese desert (Kuzukiri) where noodles made of Kuzu starch are dipped in a sweet syrup covered by a thin gold leaf.

Red Room Of Kaikaro Teahouse

Japanese Circular Window

Garden In Japanese Teahouse

Japanese Kuzukiri

Higashi Chaya District

Kuzukiri Dessert With Gold Leaf

Kaikaro Teahouse

Inside Kaikaro Teahouse

Blue Room Of Kaikaro Teahouse

Teahouse In Higashi Chaya District

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Country: Japan
Area : Chubu area
Prefecture : Ishikawa-ken
City : Kanazawa-shi
District : Higashiyama

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Sado dance

The Japanese hot spring Inn we stayed at in Sado Island offered a traditional dance show in the evening: a unique opportunity to enjoy Japanese culture after soaking in the bath and a generous seafood dinner including a copious amount of Japanese beer and sake.

A group of traditional dancers and singers came to the hotel’s lobby and gave a warm performance of a traditional dance from Sado island along the Okesa Song. The Okesa song, which is a dialog between two lovers, is thought to have been brought to Sado island by seamen navigating the sea of Japan. It is now an important cultural heritage to Sado island.

Dancer At Sado Island

Sado Island Singers

Japanese Set Menue

Japanese Food At The Hot Bath Inn

Sado Dance

Kid Playing With Fireworks

Traditional Dance Sado Island

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Country: Japan
Area : Chubu area
Prefecture : Niigata-ken
City : Sado-shi
District :

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Japanese ferry : a trip to Sado island

Taking the ferry in Japan is a peculiar experience. Ferries are typically divided in different classes. All classes share the common characteristic that most Japanese try to sleep during the trip, even if it takes only a few hours during daytime. Upper level classes consist in large rooms filled with individual and fully horizontal mattresses on which customers can sleep. Few first class rooms akin to hotel rooms are sometimes available on the upper deck.

I was in the lower class, which is more rudimentary. It consists in carpeted floor area where one can lie down. Customers seemed to consider the carpets dirty since the best majority sleep on old journal paper. While older folks take a nap or watch baseball while lying down, kids feed the marine birds with potato crackers. I personally choose to eat a warm bowl of ramen noodles and to document in photos this interesting experience of Japanese culture.

Sleeping On Japanese Ferry

Looking At The Sea

Typical Scene In Japanese Ferry

On The Deck Of Ferry

Feeding Birds On Ferry

Feeding Birds

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Country: Japan
Area : Chubu area
Prefecture : Niigata-ken
City : Jōetsu-shi
District : Minatochō

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Rice fields of Nagano prefecture

Rice is at the base of the Japanese diet and is commonly eaten at every meal of the day. Not surprisingly, rice is a major crop in Japan. It is grown in Continue reading Rice fields of Nagano prefecture

Japanese Rice Field

Rice Field In Nagano

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Country: Japan
Area : Chubu area
Prefecture : Nagano-ken
City : Nagano-shi
District : Kawanakajimamachi Yotsuya

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Kabukiza, traditional Japanese Kabuki theater

The Kabukiza is a famous Kabuki theater in Ginza district at the heart of Tokyo. Kabuki is a form of traditional Japanese theater where tales of feudal lords, samurai warriors and divinities are told. The Kabukiza was fully renovated recently Continue reading Kabukiza, traditional Japanese Kabuki theater