I saw this place on google maps and thought it looked pretty cool. When I got here I was taken away by how big and beautiful the park actually was! The locals here are lucky to have this here, and the mountains and the coastline as well! Japan has turned out to be so beautiful! […]

About 1200 years ago, the Japanese Buddhist priest En’nin was studying Buddhism in China. One night he had a mysterious dream. In the dream a holly monk said to him, “When you return to Japan, go eastward. You will find a sacred mountain in thirty days walk from Kyoto. Carve a statue of the bodhisattva […]

I missd the best time to go to this park, cherry blossom season, but the caged bears are always there. Poor bears have no natural surrounding in their cage.

The Seikan Tunnel links Honshu, the main island of Japan, with Hokkaidō, the northern island, by rail way. It’s length is 53.85km, the longest tunnel in the world, with the under sea section 23.3km long. The Tsugaru Kaikyo Line was completed in March of 1985, and the Seikan Tunnel, included within the line, was originally […]

Beautiful park and observatory on a small mountian top on the coast. The way was wrapped up with the usual local meal. This was a hole in the wall restaurant in Shiriki.

Beautiful scenic spot on the northwest coast line of Aomori.

So I was relaxing at home and looked out of the window and noticed the day was too beautiful to just play Xbox all day and watch tv series and movies. So I hit up my google maps saved places, scrolled to the “want to go places” and sent out on my adventure. The following […]

“Goshogawara Tachineputa” is one of the biggest summer festivals in Aomori Prefecture, Japan. The characters displayed on the floats are huge lanterns.  Back in the early 1900s, Neputa was a symbol for power and wealth for people like farmers, land owners and merchants. It mostly meant “rich merchants”, especially in Goshogawara. The Nunokas were known […]