🎨 Tea by Contemporary Artists' Tea Utensils in Shin-an 🍵 📢Held in a tea ceremony using tea utensils by contemporary artists at the 2025 Osaka-Kansai Expo! 🎉 In order to enjoy the experience at the Expo in the city, you can ✨ Fun a standing tea ceremony using tea utensils by contemporary artists at 📍 Sakai City Tea House Shin-an for Limited Time until May 28 (Water) Fun ♪ with the tea utensils used at the Expo site

Carp streamers dancing in the Taisho River 2-11-2 Gakuen-cho, Settsu-shi, Osaka Municipal No. 24 Meeting Hall Carp streamers swimming leisurely over the Taisho River, which has become a tradition of Settsu City announcing the arrival of Spring. This year (2025), about 900 Carp streamers are coloring the blue sky. This Carp streamers is Implementation every year by the Citizens volunteer "Dream Opening Citizens Association". Carp streamers about 2 meters long are suspended on poles and ropes erected on both banks and flutter in unison in the Spring breeze is a sight to behold. It will swim over the Taisho River until Sunday, June 8th. (2025)

Osamu Tezuka Memorial Hall Hyogo, Takarazuka, Mukogawa-cho, 7-65 If you are a manga fan, I definitely recommend it. The nostalgic Astro Boy, Jungle Emperor, Firebird, etc. are on display in the Inside the Facility.

The northbound cars of National Route 176 running near Minami-Yashiro Station on the JR Fukuchiyama Line in Tamba Sasayama City, Hyogo Prefecture. Dolls installed along the National Route in Tamba Sasayama City, Hyogo Prefecture have become a hot topic. Created by an art installations company, it consists of cans stacked on top of each other, with a doll dressed as a police officer in uniform sitting behind it, and even a car painted to look like a police car.

📢 Special Exhibition "Sakai's Techniques and Beauty: Red & Blues Coloring Crafts" 👀 📍 Let's enjoy the world of the image colors red ● and blue ● of the Osaka-Kansai Expo at the Sakai City Museum! - ● About 60 excellent exhibits that are worth seeing! 🍡🎤 Events are perfect for immersing yourself in the history and culture of Sakai City! ✨ 📅 Held in: May 20 (Tue) ~ July 13 (Sun) 9:30~17:15 📍 Location: Sakai City Museum, Daisen Park 🔍 For details, please search at "Sakai City Museum"!

🍶 "Rikyuzo" Sake Tasting Event Held In 🌸 Tasting various brands of Sake from Rikyuzo! Fun 🌸 not only for Sake lovers, but also for first-timers Please contact the staff about 🍶 the foods that go well with Sake and the relationship between Sakai's traditional culture and Sake 📅5/25 (Sun) 11:00 - 16:00 📍 Sakai Traditional Crafts Museum 🚃 3 minutes walk from the Hankai Line "Myokuni Temple-mae" For details, search 🔍 "Sakai Traditional Crafts Museum Rikyuzo"

🌸 Special exhibition and sale 🎏🌸 of Sakai May Koi Banner ✨ The beauty 🎏✨ of handwritten carp banners Held in a special exhibition and sales Events hand-painted by Takeshi Takada, the sixth generation of the Sakai May Koi "Takagi"! Please take this opportunity to 🎵 experience the beauty and technology of hand-painted carp banners, which boast a history of more than a century 📅5/16 (Fri) ~ 5/22 (Thu) 10:00-18:00 📍 Sakai Traditional Crafts Museum 🚃 3 minutes walk from the Hankai Line "Myokuni Temple-mae" For details, search 🔍 "Sakai Traditional Crafts Museum Koi Banner"

🎪 ✨EBISUJIMA CÔTÉ RIVIÈRE🚩 [Updated on May 16] On Sunday, due to the forecast of rain in the morning, the Held in time was changed from 12 o'clock to 17 o'clock. 🌿 Why don't you enjoy shopping for 🛍️ antique goods 🪑, Gourmet 🍽️ food, and DJ music 🎶 on the banks of the Ebishima River, where a relaxing time streams? ✨ 🔍 Check out @ebisujima.cote.rivi for more information.

🌹✨ The Birmingham Royal Ballet, one of Britain's two major ballet companies, is performing in Japan for the first time in seven yellowtails! ✨🌹 Gari is a plan 🩰 to enjoy a casual dinner (with appetizer platter, soup, main dish, bread, dessert, and one drink) at 🍽️ the restaurant "Sakai Terrace Salto" next to Fenice Sakai, and enjoy one of the world's one of the best ballet 📅 Held in day: 7/2 (Water) 🎭 "Sleeping Beauty" 3 acts 🎭 📍 Fenice Sakai Main Hall ⌚ Start 18:30 / End 21:30 🎫 S seats (1st floor) with Meals: 26,000 yen 🎫 Seat A (3F) with Meals: 22,500 yen 📅 Application deadline: 6/20 (Fri) 🔍 For details, please see the Sakai Tourist Guide website 💡 Why don't you enjoy the beautiful ballet and Sakai Meals that Britain is proud of with a special plan?

"Aragi Island", a rare round-shaped terraced rice field in Wakayama Prefecture Shot on DJI MAVIC 3 JAPAN Wakayama 2024/6 * Notification is required for the flight of Aragi Island. * Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Comprehensive Flight Permit has been obtained. * Notification of flight plan and preparation of flight log book

🎶 Rhythm of India 🇮🇳✨🎶 Six players of traditional musical instruments from India came to Japan. Playing the sitar, tabla, santoor, mridangan, sarangi, and sarod, this 🎶 is the first time you have played these six different instruments in Sakai! 👀 I don't think there will be many opportunities like this in the future. Please come and visit us 🎫 Admission is free, but advance registration is required! 🔍 For details, please check 😀 the official website of Fenice Sakai

🚴 ♂️ Tour of Japan 2025 Sakai Stage 🌿 One of the largest international cars road races in Japan Held in at Daisen Park Soba Tomb of Emperor Nintoku, a World Heritage Site! 📅5/18 (Sun) 9:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. 📍 Daisen Park (JR Mozu Station 10 minutes walk) 🎥 There will be a live stream on the day! Free ✨ to watch For details, search 🔍 "Tour of Japan 2025 Sakai"

✨ Tea 🍵 Ceremony by Contemporary Artists' Tea Utensils -Art Tea Ceremony in Sakai 🎨- In Sakai City, at an event in Sakai that will be Implementation at the 2025 Osaka-Kansai Expo, Held in 🌿 a tea ceremony using tea utensils by contemporary artists 🎌 So that you can enjoy your experience at the Expo in the city, At tea ceremony-related facilities in the city, contemporary artists Held in a Events of Standing Tea and Tea Using Tea Utensils 🍃🍶 📲 For details, please see the Sakai City Home page

📢 "Even Two Sakai" Special Experience ✨ "Even Two Sakai" Special Experience 🍃 A special Limited Time experience that allows you to experience the history and culture of Sakai is now available! ✨ Would you like to have a memorable experience during your precious time together? 💕 📅 Implementation period: March 14 (Fri) ~ May 31 (Sat) 🚩 Experience Plan (1) Tea experience for two people ~With love for matcha~ (Sakai Risho no Mori) (2) Matcha art experience for two people ~It's not a latte, it's matcha~ (Tea House Tsubo City Tea Honpo) (3) Japanese sweets making experience for two people ~Making them while having a good time~ (Sakai Traditional Crafts Museum) (4) Precincts cleaning experience for two ~ Start the day at Otori Taisha Shrine ~ (Otori Taisha) (5) Romantic experience for two ~ Sakai Old Port Picnic ~ (AOINAPOLI UMISOBA (Sakai Old Port)) 🔍 For details, search for "Futari even Sakai" on the Sakai tourist guide website!

Wakazono Park Rose Garden 2-4 Masago, Ibaraki City, Osaka Prefecture Admission is free! During the rose season, I look forward to the rose garden in Wakazono Park every year. The view from there was spectacular. It is in full bloom twice a year, from the beginning of May to the beginning of June and from late October to mid-November.

I went to Kyoto for the first time! It's been a dream of mine for a long time to go to the Yasaka Tower in Kyoto, and I'm glad that my dream has finally come true. I was surprised to see it in the real world, which was bigger than I expected!

🫧 A soap bubble show will come 🫧 on "Otohime's Holiday" Guinness World Records 🏆 for soap bubbles Achieved a world record in ✨ the "Longest Bubble garland Wand" category Uncle Soap Bubble is coming ♪ to "Otohime's Holiday." He is a soap bubble show specialist who has appeared in Many media 📺. It will 🫧 fill the old port 🌊 of Sakai with soap bubbles About 30 minutes from 5/10 (Sat) 15:30. We look 🙌 forward to seeing you there

"If you solve the mystery, Sakai" scattering 🚴 ♂️ 📢 Organized by the Sakai Tourism and Convention Bureau Public Interest Incorporated Association While playing a tour-type real riddle-solving game (if you solve the riddle, you will see the Sakai spirit Kajira and the legendary blacksmith who disappeared), you will ✨ tour the ring moat area of Sakai (Shimano Rotating Car Museum, Sakai Traditional Crafts Museum, etc.) by rotating Car

📢 Monster Hunter Reproduction Tachi Special Shooting Project 👀 A special photography project will be ❣ held in where you can shoot as if you were holding a reproduction sword * You cannot touch the Reproduction sword. Held in Date & Time: May 3 (Sat) ~ May 18 (Sun) (Closed on May 12 (Mon)) Session 1: 10:30 a.m. Session 2: 11:30 a.m. Session 3: 12:30 p.m. Session 4: 13:30〜 Session 5: 2:30 p.m. Capacity: 5 people each time Fee: Free Reception: Numbered tickets will be distributed at Sakai City Tea House Shinan on the day of the Held in.

📢 Introducing ✨ the new experience plan Enjoy at a long-established tea shop Experience making matcha with a stone mill and how to 🍵 brew it Why don't you enjoy the experience of making matcha from tencha at the long-established "Nishio Mokaen Tea Shop" in Sakai, a town where the tea ceremony is alive? Matcha made with a stone mill can be brewed and enjoyed 🍵 by yourself It comes with a lecture from the owner, so even first-timers can rest assured 🔰😊. In the second half, we will hear 🎀 about how to brew delicious sencha and stories related to Tea In the store, there are not only tea leaves, but also products using Tea such as "Rikyu, Sakai and Wahi Tea Day Chocolat", which was selected as a Representative product of Osaka, and jam, which are perfect 🎁 for Souvenirs Please join 🌿 us in the delicious season of New Tea For acquaintances who come to the Expo from afar, This is ✨🔔 a recommended plan to get to know Sakai For details, search 🔍 for "Sakai matcha making"

This photo was taken at an annual festival held at Shinoda Shrine in Shiga Prefecture. Designated as an Intangible Folk Cultural Asset, Shinoda's Fireworks feature not only fireworks but also a variety of productions such as Japanese fireworks, gimmick fireworks, and Niagara. This moment, in which tradition and power are fused, was captured in a moment of brilliance

Today, 800 years after the time of the samurai, Bushido is still the spiritual prop of the Japanese people and still influences the politeness and manners of the Japanese people. Some aspire to Bushido from childhood, learning calligraphy and tea ceremony as spiritual training to become a respectable adult like a samurai, and swordsmanship as training in the martial arts. In the past, a "respected person" was called a "samurai. Others in general are simply samurai. Those who have learned bushido from abroad and aspire to become "Samurai" will be wielding Samurai swords tonight. #katana #bushido #samuraiSword

The average life expectancy a samurai in the Warring States period is said to be about 42 years. The average life expectancy for men in Japan today is about 81.5 years, and 87.6 years for women. With only about half the time compared to today's life expectancy, these Samurai ran through an era when they did not know what tomorrow's life would bring... #katana #bushido #osakacastle #samuraiSword #samuraiarmor

Fujiwara Palace Ruins in Nara Prefecture Due to work, I usually only have one Vacation a week on Weekdays, and most of the time I shoot when there are no people, but I can take a Sunday off only once a month, and it is a popular Spot Visit for family trips, so it was difficult to shoot like this. I gave instructions to my wife on my cell phone from quite a distance and waited for people to disappear, but I clicked the shutter at the moment when people stopped streaming more than I had imagined. I wanted to shoot in a horizontal composition, but I shot in a vertical position because people were reflected.

The ruins of Fujiwara Palace in Nara Prefecture I finally came to the place I wanted to visit and see, and it was Sunday, so I could imagine it to some extent, but it was a very popular Spot for tourists from overseas.

The famous Great Buddha of Tsubozaka Temple in Nara Prefecture was crowded with tourists from overseas with many languages flying around.

The famous Great Buddha of Tsubozaka Temple in Nara Prefecture was crowded with tourists from overseas with many languages flying around.

BICYCLE INN PARK 2025 To coincide with the Held in of the "Tour of Japan 2025 Sakai Stage", we will Held in "BICYCLE INN PARK2025"! 🎉 We will prepare encounters with new things and people with a wide range of contents such as flea markets, test drives of rotating cars, music, art, and schools. Please come and visit us! ✨ 📅May 17 (Sat) & 18 (Sun) 10 a.m. ~ 4 p.m. (tentative) 📍 Daisen Park * traffic restriction will be Implementation on the 18th, so please refrain from visiting with Car. There are also restrictions on access to the park during the race. Please arrive with plenty of time to spare. There are various rotating cars, such as the first car I rode, the car I bought when I became an Adult, and the spinning car that can run fast and carry a lot of playthings and things. Through various experiences, the way to enjoy it continues to Unfold and change. You'll definitely want a new Car and playthings, and you'll 🚲 find a place you want to play

I took a picture of the bell against the backdrop of cherry blossoms blooming in the Precincts of Seijoshin-in, a Temple on Mt. Koyasan where the Head Shrine of Shingon Buddhism is located. The cherry blossoms here are also known as umbrella cherry blossoms because of their shape. It may be the most famous cherry blossom in Koyasan ...

Learning calligraphy is said to help children develop concentration, correct posture, etiquette and the ability to express themselves. It also helps children to learn to write beautifully, leading to increased confidence and ambition. - Benefits of learning calligraphy: Improved concentration➤ Writing requires attention to stroke order and balance, which can improve concentration. Correct posture➤ Calligraphy is done sitting on the floor, which helps to develop correct posture. Courtesy➤ Students can learn etiquette such as how to hold a brush, ink rubbing and paper handling. Improved self-expression skills➤ Allows students to express their feelings and thoughts through writing. Developing self-confidence➤ Being able to write well and achieving goals can boost your confidence and aspirations. Relaxation➤ Writing letters with a brush and ink in a quiet environment helps to relax and relieve stress. Preparation for primary school➤ It is also an opportunity to practise pencil holding and writing order before entering primary school. #Calligraphy #kanji #kimono #shodo