Chubu Region: Travel Tips and Recommendations

[Maneki Neko]

Do you have tips on the best things to do and places to visit in the Chubu region? Post them here. :)


Chubu region is composed of:
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Aichi
Fukui
Gifu
Ishikawa
Nagano
Niigata
Shizuoka
Toyama
Yamanashi[/list]

[gaki]

Sa mga interesado sa Pottery, this is the place fer ya!. hehehe

[Maneki Neko]

Sa mga interesado sa Pottery, this is the place fer ya!. hehehe


Wow, nasa Nagoya ka pala. Please visit the Nagoya Castle if you have time. Lagi ako kinukulit ng friend ko sa Aichi, pupunta daw kami sa Nagoya Castle. She even sent me a pic of her last visit to the castle...inggitin daw ba ko.:p

[Maneki Neko]

Mount Fuji tea ceremony
It's high time for tea time at the summit of Mount Fuji where you can witness a traditional Urasenke-style tea ceremony with Sosei Sei (a practitioner of sado, the art of tea ceremony). On July 15 trek up the Shizuoka side of the mountain to the final stop of the Fujinomiya climbing road where you'll find Fuji-san's Sengen Taisha Okumiya Shrine. There, the ceremony runs from 12:00-2:30 p.m. and has instruction in English and French. Tired climbers can unwind with free macha (powdered green tea) and Japanese confectionaries. With altitude causing a lower boiling point (87 C at 3,766 meters), you won't experience a cooler natural high this summer.
E-mail info@koujituann.com

[Maneki Neko]

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<p id="paragrah">Japan's fireworks displays are known the world over for their dynamism. Japanese people have enjoyed hanabi,
as they are known here, since the Edo Period (1603-1868). Displays can
be found all over the nation, but none match the one that caps the
Katakai Matsuri on Sept. 9 and 10 at Ojiya City, Niigata Prefecture.



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<p id="paragrah">The festival makes it into the "Guinness World Records" book for having the biggest fireworks in the world. The yonshakudama
fireworks it catapults into the summer sky are approximately 1.2 meters
in diameter, weigh 450 kg, rise to a level 800 meters above ground and
mushroom out 800 meters. A total of 1,500 fireworks will be let off
during the two days.



<p id="paragrah">Last year, approximately 200,000 people inundated
Ojiya City to see the display that is a part of the autumn festival for
the 400-year-old local Asahara shrine.



<p id="paragrah">Accommodating such hordes of people was no easy task
for the small town of Ojiya, whose approximately 5,000 citizens put on
the festival with almost no help from sponsors.



<p id="paragrah">To find out more about how to get to the display venue, visit the festival's official Web site at www.adacchi.com (http://www.adacchi.com/).<p id="paragrah">Japan Times Online (http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fq20070907a3.html)