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Blossoms fascinate foreign visitors

Edit The Japan News 27 Mar 2016
Freeplus Inc., an Osaka travel agency that serves foreign tourists, is offering tours to famous cherry blossom spots, such as Osaka Castle Park in the city’s Chuo Ward ... Ueno Park in Tokyo had 2.34 million visitors during cherry blossom season last year, many of them from abroad ... Maruyama Park in Higashiyama Ward, Kyoto, has been featured in magazines from China and Taiwan since about two years ago....

100-year recipe / Taste of Japanese mom / imobo

Edit The Japan News 31 Dec 2015
The Yomiuri ShimbunThe name imobo may sound familiar as a specialty in Kyoto, but many people in other parts of Japan may never have tasted it. It’s a dish of simmered ebiimo, a local traditional taro, and dried cod, called bodara ... It looks a bit ugly ... Slide 1 of 1 ... Imobo is said to have been invented by the founder of restaurant Imobo Hiranoya Honke, located in Maruyama Park in Kyoto, in the middle of the Edo period (1603-1867) ... vinegar....

I Heart My City: Kaley’s Sapporo

Edit National Geographic News 30 Dec 2015
When someone comes to visit me, the first place I take them is to 19th-century Odori Park in Sapporo’s city center. Odori Park is home to the Sapporo TV Tower (back right) ... Locals know to skip the Tanuki Koji shopping arcade and check out Maruyama Park in the city’s western suburbs instead ... The Sapporo Art Park (Photograph by mujitra, flickr) ... In the fall you should go to Nakajima Park to see the leaves change colors....

The 5 best places to travel this spring

Edit Business Insider 28 Apr 2015
Blossoms start opening April 28, and will grace the parks and promenades of Sapporo until about May 8, according to local forecasts. One of the best spots to enjoy a viewing picnic is Maruyama Park and Shrine, where the path to the shrine is lined with cherry trees. Moerenuma Park also has a grove of cherry trees ... In addition to enjoying Odori Park’s 400 lilac trees, there is also a music festival and outdoor tea ceremonies....

The Kyoto University Museum hosts "Children's Open-Air Museum in Maruyama" (6 May 2014) (Kyoto University)

Edit noodls 09 Dec 2014
(Source. Kyoto University). The Kyoto University Museum cohosted "Children's Open-Air Museum in Maruyama" with the operator of the Maruyama Park Outdoor Music Stage, the venue of this event, with support provided by The University Museum Shop MUSEP ... The outdoor event takes place annually on 5 May, Children's Day, and is now in its eighth year ... distributed by ... (noodl. 26185969) ....

International exchange programs organized by the Graduate School of Economics concluded (31 August-20 September 2014) (Kyoto University)

Edit noodls 20 Nov 2014
(Source. Kyoto University). During the summer break, the Graduate School of Economics organized two international exchange programs ... Field Research in Thailand ... Summer School at GSE ... For example, the lecture on Japanese history and culture was followed by a trip to the Kiyomizu-dera Temple, where the students watched the Blue Dragon Dance, before walking along the meandering historic streets to Maruyama Park and Yasaka-jinja Shrine....

Letter from Kyoto: Cherry Blossoms in Old Japan

Edit National Geographic News 01 May 2014
I feel like a character in a haiku ... When I reached grand Maruyama Park, spotlights illuminated one of the most famous cherry trees in all Japan, a venerable shidarezakura, a weeping variety resembling a fountain spraying petals in every direction ... Celebrants delight in a hanami (cherry-blossom viewing party) by lantern light in Maruyama Park (Photograph by camknows, Flickr) ....

Japanese cherry blossom: 2014 festival and viewing guide

Edit The Daily Telegraph 27 Mar 2014
In cherry blossom season it is the place to view somei yoshino and weeping cherry trees and other rare varieties around the park and moats of the castle ... Ueno Park, Tokyo ... Maruyama Park and the Philosopher’s Path, Kyoto. Maruyama Park is the oldest park in Kyoto and is renowned for its huge weeping cherry trees, best viewed at night ... Nara Park, Nara ... Senkoji Park, Hiroshima ... Goryokaku Fort Park, Hokkaido....

Looking for the secrets of Kyoto

Edit San Francisco Chronicle 14 Mar 2014
Because the religious centers were founded long before space was an issue, Kyoto's temples and shrines tend to be rolling complexes with OCD-worthy gardens and scores of halls and sub-shrines - Buddhist or Shinto theme parks where the rides are ringing bells, tossing coins, offering prayers and climbing towers ... Or Tokyo ... Or two ... Maruyama-koen-uchi, Higashiyama ward (next to Maruyama park), +81 75-561-1603, www.imobou.net/english.html ... ....

Union Pay - The Season Has Arrived! Introducing Notable Sites and Highlights for Cherry Blossoms in Japan

Edit Business Wire 12 Mar 2014
• Sumida Park (Tokyo) ... • Ueno Onshi Park (Tokyo) ... Ueno Park, 5-20 Taito-ku ... • Takasaki Joshi Park (Gunma) ... • Hirosaki Park (Aomori) ... • Maruyama Park (Hokkaido) ... It is located on the northern side of the Maruyama primeval forest and contains a zoo, a baseball field, a track-and-field stadium, tennis courts and a park for children, and is popular among the city’s residents as a place for relaxation....
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