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....
Shigaraki Station Pottery Fair
by Kyle Yates | Apr 30, 2009 | Kansai Culture, Kansai Events
Until May 6th, Shigaraki Station in Koka, Shiga is holding a pottery fair in front of the station in the square from 9am to 5pm. Shigaraki pottery is famous throughout Japan. It is one of “The Six Old Kilns”, which consisted of Seto, Echizen, Tokoname,...
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....
