I’ve never heard thunder as sharp and loud as last night in rural Japan before. That was much better than in Tokyo. Ghibli Park scheduled to open in Aichi expo site!! It was bad thunderstorm here on July 1st and the governor of Aichi prefecture announced they would establish Ghibli Park. This news speraded out overseas and now people are really excited about it. What is Ghibli Park? First of all, what is it? It’s gonna be a theme park based on Studio Ghibli. That means we can enjoy the world of Ghibli anime like Disney Land. All fans of Ghibli will be crazy about this, including me also. Though, […]
E-Bike Tour with Super Friendly UK Guests and Happy Coincidence!
This time, E-bike tour with UK guests. I would like to share not only the tour but the amazing coincidence happening afterwards. They are from Southampton but the big sister living in Japan as a TV caster booked our bike tour since her brother wants to see more rural area with his girlfriend. They stayed at Takayama and took train for 40 minutes to join in the tour fortunately. From the first sight at the station, I guessed they would be so friendly and humorous guys. Actually, that was true! See it? As if they are not from UK! Maybe from US? haha. After some instructions, we started the tour as […]
Bike around with US Family to See the Life in Rural Japan
Today, I gonna share another memory with you. A customized e-bike tour with US family. They are from San Francisco and it is the first time for sons to come to Japan. That is why dad want them to see various parts of Japan, then picked Maze as the rural part. They stayed at Maruhachi Ryokan for 2 nights and joined in the e-bike tour on the 2nd day. Basically, our e-bike tour starts from the station but this time from the ryokan. It was the first trial tour actually. It took 4.5 hours and what we did is like below. Cycle around the rural village Visit a small shrine […]