Traditional Japanese footwear comes in a variety of styles and materials all tailored for different age, gender, profession, occasion, and season to name a few. But one common aspect is that they all have thong toes like the flip-flops of today. These are a popular type of footwear worn by people in kimono on the…
Visiting Tokyo but don’t have enough time to travel around Japan to see the traditional architectures and the Japanese gardens. It would be wonderful to take a trip to Kyoto, Wakayama or Gifu to see the temples, pagoda, and country houses, but you would need the luxury of time to do that. Well, here’s an…
Well not exactly. Its a small statue of a sumurai on a bar counter that’s watching over you at a standing bar in Shimbashi, Tokyo. Posters and framed photo of this samurai are hanged all over the bar and even his katana or swords (fake, of course) are also displayed on the wall. I am…
