Travel & Food
Kasadera Kannon — A Thousand-Year Story That Started with a HatNew!!

The story of a Nagoya temple named after a single straw hat — a tale of kindness, a young Tokugawa Ieyasu, and a thousand years of history.

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Language & Culture
Japan, as I see it — starting from Nagoya

Hi, nice to meet you. My name is Toshizou, and I make videos for a living here in Japan. I currently live in Nagoya. By the way — have you heard of Nagoya? It's actually said to be one of the three biggest cities in Japan. But most people from abroad seem to head straight to Tokyo or Osaka. And Kyoto, of course. Nagoya sits, quite literally, in the middle of the country. Osaka and Kyoto are to the west, Tokyo is to the east. And honestly, even from a Japanese point of view, this city has a culture all its own. For example, miso. Do you know miso? It's […]

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