Vikki and Ben
Hello Ben and I moved to Nagoya, Japan in October. We hope to stay here for two years and we want to share our Japanese adventure with our friends and family.BenandVikkiJapan
Travel Blog Posts
May 11th 2012
Hello During Golden week we went with our friend Chihiro to Amakusa and went dolphin watching. For some reason lots of dolphins hang out in this area, we saw about 40 dolphins which was awesome. Before we went dolphin watching we did some fishing, I caught two fish but could only eat one because the other was a puffer fish. Enjoy the photos. Vikki... read more
February 4th 2012
Hello, We went to the Konomiya Shrine's Naked Festival on Saturday with Zoe and Martin. It was really good fun, we hope you enjoy the photos and bit of information below. Hadaka Matsuri officially called "Naoi Shinji", this festival takes place anually on January 13 of the lunar calendar. The festival started about 1240 years ago in the year 767 (Nara Period), when Emperor Shotoku ordered the entire nation to offer prayers to dispel a plague. The govenor of Owari Province (presently Aichi prefecture) thereby went to the Owari Sosha Shrine and founded the festival to dispel bad luck and calamities. Since it is said that touching the consecrated man, Shin-Otako, will dispel one's bad luck. A large group of naked men bravely struggle to touch the Shin-Otoka, who has been censecrated in a ceremony lasting ... read more
January 19th 2012
Hello We hope you had a lovely Christmas and New Year, ours was really good. My parents came to Japan and this blog will show you some of the stuff we did whilst they were here. You may notice Ben isn't in many because he had to work but he is in other ones that I will hopefully publish today.... read more
January 13th 2012
Hello We went to Osaka at the weekend and had a lovely time, I'm not saying there isn't a lot to do in Osaka but you will see we mainly visited the castle. We took our lonely planet so we knew where to go and we found some bars. Well the first bar we went to was dead it was just us which was alright we chatted and drank beer. It was happy hour so the beer was very cheap. Then we went for dinner in what felt like the ladies living room, she made us some really good okonomi-yaki. The other people in there were drinking red wine with ice, apparently that's how you drink red wine in Japan. After dinner we decided we wanted to have some more drinks and came accross a darts ... read more
December 10th 2011
Hello, This is called Kyoto take 2 because my first attempt went very wrong. We went to Kyoto on Saturday 10th December with Ben's boss and his family, it was really good fun. We drove so didn't see much of the city but we did get to visit some gorgeous Temples and Shrines. We visited three temples Kinkaku-ji, Ginkaku-ji, and Byodoin. Kinkaku-ji is the golden temple, it was absolutely beautiful especially because it was sunny. Ginkaku-ji is the silver temple, I believe it was meant to be covered in silver but they ran out of money. Don't quote me. Byodoin is a very old temple, it was established in 1052. We arrived as the sun was going down so the photos are a bit dark, also the temple is on the 10 yen coin. We visited ... read more
November 26th 2011
On Saturday we went to see lots of maple trees because the leaves are changing colour, it was very pretty. It did take two hours on a bus to drive maybe 20 miles because it is supposed to be the third best site to see the red maple leaves in Japan after Kyoto (No.’s 1 and 2) so there was lots of traffic.... read more
November 23rd 2011
Due to a public holiday on Wednesday 23rd November we went to Lake Biwa, it is very big and pretty as you will see. We walked along the lake to Hikone and visited Hikone Castle which is a National Treasure. We thought the outside of the castle was spectacular but the inside was just ok with lots of queues.... read more
November 18th 2011
Hello We went to the Atsuta shrine and Shirotori gardens which are beautiful. We took quite a lot of photos that you can have a look at. In November they have a festival for three, five and seven year olds. They dress up in gorgeous clothes and visit shrines, we didn't know this when we went to Atsuta Shrine so had a surprise. Vikki and Ben... read more
November 18th 2011
Hello In October we went on a trip with my Japanese class to Inuyama. It is a very pretty place with a very nice castle. Please enjoy our photos. Vikki and Ben... read more
November 18th 2011
Hello, This is our first blog, we hope you enjoy looking at our pictures and seeing what adventures we have been up to. Although I say we, Ben is at work so I'm doing it on my own which could be interesting. I hope this works. I thought I should tell you a little bit about Osu Kannon, it is a shopping area in Nagoya. It has lots of shops, food stands, restaurants and our favourite supermarket. At the weekend it is very busy and you can tell the popular restaurants because they always have long queues. Sadly I cant remember the historical information about Nagoya castle, I think it was pretty much destroyed in a war and re-built, sorry to be so vague. I do have one interesting fact we can see it from our ... read more
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