by Kyle Yates | Apr 12, 2012 | Kansai Area News, Kansai Culture, Kansai Leisure, Kansai Visitors
Have been visiting cherry blossoms spots all week from Osaka to Kyoto to Nara and the blossoms have finally reached 100%! From this point on, blossoms will begin dropping their petals. Saw some cherry blossoms today in Hirakata shedding. Petals were dropping off and...
by Kyle Yates | Apr 6, 2011 | Japan Related, Kansai Health, Kansai Living, Kansai Visitors
According to the Norwegian institute for air research, tomorrow is not a good day to go outdoors in the Kansai region or anywhere else in western Japan, unless you don’t mind taking a chance on getting irradiated. According to them, radiation coming from the...
by Kyle Yates | Mar 11, 2011 | Japan Related, Kansai Area News
For those of you worrying about family or friends living in the Kansai region, Osaka, Kyoto, Shiga, Hyogo (Kobe) and Nara, while many people felt the initial quake down this far south, the Kansai region was not really effected. People in this area should be alright....
by Kyle Yates | Mar 5, 2009 | Kansai Culture, Kansai Leisure
Do you like hot springs? If so, then if you visit Japan, you will feel like you are in Heaven…if you don’t mind taking your clothes off and bathing with a bunch of other naked people; usually same-sex, not the opposite. Japan is loaded with hot springs....
by Kyle Yates | Oct 6, 2008 | Kansai Visitors
In April, Japanese cherry blossoms bring in spring, while the Japanese momiji, known as the Japanese maple, announces autumn has come. If you are traveling in Japan, make sure you come in autumn at least once in your lifetime to see the Japanese maples in their...
