Aichi-ken Travel and Tourism Guide

It was a beautiful day, so we went on a hike. We have a good hiking course, a part of The tokai nature trail in our city. We climed up and down steep mountain paths and said "Hello" to other hikers. We enjoyed a forest bath.

I had a pretty rough night, I apparently have a bad cavity and it's acting up. I can't sleep, it's horrible. Anywho, didn't get much sleep but I had to get up so we could head to the Sanage Hot Springs. Satomi, Jun, Harunu and I drove about 30 minutes to these great springs. The drive was so beautiful, very lush green forest with bamboo and trees on both sides of this small winding rode up into the mountains. It wasn't a very hot day today, for once, but it was still very humid. The whole Ho...

In Japan there is a special way of counting years in addition to the Western calendar style. The Meiji era, or Meiji period began in 1867 and it ended in 1912. During this time, Japan started its modernization after centuries of isolation.  In 1965, two men decided to preserve histrical buildings of the Meiji era and the Taisho(1912-1926) era, so they formed a foundation.  Thanks to their effort, those histrical buildings built in various big cities like Tokyo, O...

My friend are moving to Canada for a year so I decided to have fun with her. We went to Higashiyama Zoo. I haven't gone there for over 15 years. I actually don't remember when I went there the last time lolWe both had 'donichi eco kippu' (see my tip to nagoya review) so we had 100yen off to enter the zoo. Ok,, it costs only 500yen. It's so cheap but we had discount so it was 400yen. haha! I knew they have sakura so I wanted to have fun both zoo and seeing sakura. Animals were so cute but SO l...