I can take only two long holidays every year; one of them is summer holiday and the other one is a new year holiday. Summer holiday generally involves visits to craftsmen, so I visited a potter in Shimane prefecture this year. Although my main purpose of visiting Shimane was visiting the potter, I continued my journey…
Month: August 2016
Notice of summer holiday
I’m taking a late summer holiday from 21st till 24th. The shop will open for business as usual from 25th. I’m now taking an overnight train called Sunrise Izumo and am heading to Shimane. The train left the Tokyo station at 22:00 and will arrive Izumo station at around 10:00, so it’s about 12…
Meiji Memorial Gallery and Ginkgo tree street in Aoyama
Aoyama, where my shop is located, is very different from other parts of touristy area in Tokyo. Asakusa, Ginza and Shibuya are top 3 destinations for anyone visiting Tokyo, but these touristy areas are generally packed with many people and you can easily get tired of walking around in that crowd. Aoyama, on the other…
Go up to the Tokyo Tower Observatory by using stairs.
There are two stand alone communication towers in Tokyo; one is Tokyo Tower, which is a kind of replica of Eiffel tower and it is the hight of 333m. Another one is Tokyo Skytree and the hight is 634m. Since the Tokyo Skytree appeared in Tokyo, the older counterpart; Tokyo Tower, has sadly been hidden…
Hokkaido and Takahashi-Kougei 高橋工芸
Takahashi kougei （高橋工芸）is specializing in producing thinly carved wooden cups, plates and bowls. When I met them about 10 years ago, not many people showed any interests to their products, but their products gradually became famous both domestically and internationally and they are now sold in various countries. They use woods cut from the…
Travel to Akita and Aomori
My shop is open for 7 days a week, so I do not have any fixed holidays at all apart from about 4 days summer and 1 week new year holidays. My shop is like an extension of my hobby, so that is why I still enjoy my work and I am happy to be…
Blue porcelain small sake cups and large bowls by Mr. Youichi Yoko Yajima (矢嶋ヨーコ洋一）
It has been really hot lately in Tokyo as usual in Summer and as you may know summer in Tokyo is not only hot in terms of temperature, but the humidity makes the situation even worse…. Anyway it has always been like that every year, so we have various ways of trying to keep cool…
MA by So Shi Te 