Roses are red… and white, yellow, pink, purple, orange…!

With the Cherryblossom Craze finally calmed down,  the next flower mania takes over Japan; the roses are in full bloom! Near our house is a famous park, not the one with the castle, but the one built in the middle of the river surrounded by skyscrapers and highways: Nakanoshima park, literally meaning “island in the middle”. There …

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The Nara Mountainside Trail

Now is the season in Japan to go outside! The temperature is perfect, the weather is sunny, the mountains are green. Next month the rainy season will start, and after that the unbearable heat of summer, and it won’t be until October when it has finally cooled down enough to actually do stuff outside again. …

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Rock Climbing in Kobe

It was a beautiful sunny day, and we really wanted to explore the mountains around Osaka a bit more. So we went to hike around mount Rokko, near Kobe. The trail leading to the top is really cool because of the sandstone formations you have to climb! After passing a lovely old teahouse and a waterfall, …

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