Japan Travel in the Know

What would you do if you won the lottery of 10 million dollars? Quit a job, charter a plane, and go for luxury travel abroad? I believe everyone has such an experience to talk about something silly like this, but seriously think about it for a moment. Are you sure you can keep on doing only what you want to do even if you’re alone? Every time my stock portfolio is up, th...

Have you ever seen “jewelry ice?” It is completely different from drift ice, made of not sea water but fresh water, and so, it’s highly transparent like a diamond. River water turns into ice on the surface at river mouth, and the ice pieces, before getting washed ashore, drift in the sea for a while, get rounded off, and are more brightly polished. According to Wikipedia...

Don’t you mind waiting in line for restaurants for example? In Japan, you can see well-organized long lines of people waiting for something, which, I’ve learned, is one of the Japanese features attracting many people coming from overseas to Japan. Indeed, we, Japanese people have been strictly disciplined to stand in line tidy and orderly since we were kids, especially i...