Takako and Yamachan

Parfume Foret and Unagi Pie

---

November 11th 2007
I must be the luckiest girl in the world to have met Emi Sato and her family!!! Today, Emi's mother, Takako, planned a special little day trip for us to Hamamatsu, a city about an hour south of Shizuoka City. We started off this morning at about 9:30 and drove across a couple of different rivers (Tenryo was the most famous one) and through heaps of green tea fields to get to our first stop ... read more

Asia » Japan » Shizuoka

---

In 1603, a Tokugawa shogunate (military dictatorship) ushered in a long period of isolation from foreign influence in order to secure its power. For 250 years this policy enabled Japan to enjoy stability and a flowering of its indigenous culture. Fol... ... read more