Coming of Age Day (2nd Monday in January) is a national holiday on Japan, when those who reached the age of legal adulthood (20) over the past year are bored by speeches at a city assembly hall in their hometowns, then party with their friends. Sometimes the party starts before the speeches. Traditionally, the new [...]

[ November 13, 2009 5:00 pm to November 29, 2009 9:00 pm. ]

Every year at this time the Eizan Railway, which runs through my town up into the mountains to the towns of Kibune and Kurama, has a “Momiji Tunnel” event that coincides with the “Momiji Touro”  illumination event in Kibune.

Beginning at dusk, the trains going to and from Kurama slow down and turn off internal lights [...]

[ December 11, 2009 5:00 pm to December 20, 2009 8:30 pm. ] The 2009 Hana Touro illumination event will be held evenings from December 11-20. Arashiyama’s main street, including the Togetsukyo Bridge, will be illuminated with lanterns, along with side streets, bamboo forests and temples (excluding Tenryu-ji).

Pretty amazing is this, a genius of some sort recreated Kinkakuji Temple in Kyoto in pop-up Lego. That’s all you need to know about this.