April

In Japan, April is the month when children go back to school, after a short holiday. When you think of it, isn’t it is quite natural to start the [...]

Here comes the new tea! Shin-cha (新茶), this is how the first tea of the season is called.
Here is a tea field in the Shizuoka prefecture. The tea [...]

We all know the japanese cherry trees (sakura), but we sometimes tend to forget their importance in japanese culture!
These trees, which are blooming no longer than 3 weeks per year, [...]

The word hanami (花見, means “watch the flowers”: hana = “blossom”, and mi “watch, look”) is often interpreted in various ways:
For some people, it means walking through the gardens or [...]