You might think that Japanese food and society don’t leave much room for desserts: cakes, sweets, candies and such. Perhaps because a large majority of Japanese people are very slim. Yet the Japanese are quite greedy and very inventive in their production of desserts.
Here are a few pictures I took during my latest trip to Japan. Click on each thumbnail to view the photo full size:
I try to present as many Japanese gardens as possible here because they represent very significant zen punctuation in a travel itinerary, especial...
The moss temple is not the least known point of interest in Kyoto, but given the relative difficulty to get there, few Western visitors care to vi...
Odaiba is a frequent stop for travelers in Japan who spend a few days in Tokyo. It's an artificial island located south of the capital towards Han...
Tsukiji market in Tokyo, which brows two thousand tons of fish every day, is ruled by a number of codes in order not to interfere with merchants a...
Asakusa is best known for its famous Senso-ji temple. I've chosen to focus on this one to deal with the famous and heavily visited Tokyo district,...
Zojo-ji temple was built in 1393, but was moved to where it is now in 1598 by shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu. Most of the buildings that make up this Budd...
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