Tomioka Hachimangu 、Sumo wrestling birthplace

Stone monument where sumo wrestling taking was drawn

Here Tomioka Hachimangu is known as a sumo wrestling birthplace. This day was crowded with the power of people by the free market.
It has a hard time to take the photograph in bustle as usual.

Shitamachi museum ,old downtown in Tokyo are displayed

Pump for old well and cowboy boots.

Old kitchen range and cowboy boots

It is a small museum where it is in Ueno in Tokyo, and introduced customs of old Japan.

Kobe, Seattle, and totem pole

Kobe and Seattle are sister cities.
This is a totem pole sent from the Seattle citizens to the Kobe City people.
This is set up in the park specially built in the vicinity in Kobe City Office.



I was born in Kobe and grew up.
This totem pole is the one that I was familiar from childhood.
The Kobe City people also value it.

Meguro Fudo,the shrine in Tokyo

I have gone to Meguro Fudo.

Meguro Fudo is an old Shinto shrine introduced to the historical romance of Japan.

A red color is a sacred color, and it is used well in the Shinto shrine.

Hama Rikyu Edo style garden

Typical feudal lord garden of Edo period with pond of [shio iri ] and two duck opportunities. The pond of [shio iri ] is a style for which seawater is usually used in the garden in the beach in the one to change the elegance of the pond by drying up filling about the lead tide.


In this garden, there is the resting booth of an old Japanese style.

Therefore you can enjoy delicious cake and green tea with an old style.


It is SamuraiBoots style to enjoy the oasis in this Tokyo by the boots appearance.

Showa & Rios of Mercedes

Since before, it has taken an interesting metropolitan streetcar.
The place along railway-tracks of the tram was happy by the town like Japan on the age of the Showa era.
Here is Minowabashi Station.

There is a cafe where green tea of the Japanese style can be readily drunk in this town, too.


I have gone to the town of this Showa era with Riosof Mercedes.

Nioh,Kongourikishi,Vajradhara

In Japan, the gate of the entrance in the buddhist temple often sees the two deva kings image stand right and left. They are patron saints who prevent the enemy from entering it in the buddhist temple.

Three-Storied Pagoda. It is an important cultural asset.

It builds in Muromachi Period very much in Three-Storied Pagoda in the SHAKUBUJI -temple that exists in the Hyogo Prefecture Kobe City Kita Ward.
At that time, it is one of the maximum level towers.
It is specified for national important cultural properties in 1925.


It is very beautiful though it is not Three-Storied Pagoda famous in a Japanese country.
Only only the tower pauses at intervals of a quiet mountain, and there is no sign of the person at all in daytime.

Today's mate is Lucchese.

Sasayama ruins of a castle ,Go! by the Tony Lama

I have gone to Sasayama ruins of a castle where Hyogo Prefecture exists in Sasayama City.
It is a place famous for the taste of autumn such as the chestnut, the matsutake mushroom, the black soybean, and wild boar's meat.

Scenery with the cowboy boots that sticks to Japanese style is taken in the name of "SamuraiBoots".
Oh dear, it does comfortably and associate, please.

Sasayama is a great favorite course in a short touring in my motorcycle.
It is an expression or a divided beautiful bourg according to the season though the age is visited several times.


The public notice was not anxious even if tourist's person was also a little this time, and it took a picture and it survived.


The castle is large study in Sasayama ruins of a castle where it was restored that it was not and was seen the opponent of boots now. The inside was a material pavilion.
The theory of Maru of Nijo Castle 2 in Kyoto having been referred also.
The fortification seems to be about 1609.