Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Japan, Tokyo, yukata, Shibuya, Akihabara, water, maids, Uchimizukko, sprinkling, uchimizu, cooling on August 7, 2009 | 9 Comments »
It is the middle of summer in Tokyo and it is hot, hot, hot as usual!
The annual Akihabara Uchimizukko (Uchimizu) event was held on August 1, 2009 near the JR Akihabara station.
Uchimizu is a Japanese tradition in which water is sprinkled in gardens and streets.
During the hot summer, it serves to cool the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Akihabara, festival, Japan, maids, mikoshi, otaku, shrine, Tokyo on June 25, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Previously, I blogged about Akihabara. I have also blogged about numerous Japanese festivals for the past year, where portable shrines called mikoshi are carried by townspeople enthusiastically through the local streets.
Combining these two results in the Akiba Mikoshi, a portable shrine made for Akihabara containing otaku type items or geeky decorations such as anime figures, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Akiba, Akihabara, anime, computers, electronics, Japan, Kanda, maids, manga, otaku, Tokyo on May 28, 2009 | 15 Comments »
Akihabara (秋葉原), also known as Akihabara Electric Town, is a famous area of Tokyo, Japan, located less than five minutes by train from Tokyo Station. Its name is frequently shortened to Akiba (アキバ) in Japan.
Akihabara is a major shopping area for electronic, computer, anime, manga, DVD, games and otaku goods, including new [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Akihabara, festival, hopi, Japan, Kanda, matsuri, mikoshi, Shinto, shrine, Tokyo on May 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
… continued from Part 1.
The other highlight of the Kanda Myojin Omikoshi or Kanda Matsuri (Kanda Festival) was held on Sunday, May 10, 2009, as about 200 mikoshi (portable shrines) owned by the town were carried through the town of Kanda and Akihabara, Tokyo’s electric town.
The streets were closed to traffic as a [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Japan, Tokyo, matsuri, festival, shrine, parade, taiko, Shinto, Akihabara, Kanda on May 14, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Kanda Myojin Omikoshi Togyo or Kanda Matsuri (Kanda Festival) is one of the three grandest festivals in Tokyo, held at Kanda Myojin Shrine, Chiyoda-ku. The festival as held on May 7-15, 2009 this year.
As usual with Japanese festivals, you can find lots food stalls and carnival games.
Taiko (Japanese drum beating) [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Akihabara, Confucius, gate, Japan, shrine, temple, Tokyo on February 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
One of the most peaceful and simplest shrines in Tokyo just south of the more colorful Kanda Myojin Shrine (which I had blogged about previously) is the Yushima Seido shrine, also in Akihabara, established in 1690 by the Edo government as a place to study Confucianism. It was the first place of higher education in [...]
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