This is the second time I visited this largest private museum garden in the east part of Hokkaido. The outsider artist, Mr. Shigenari Onishi, built his artistic place, Shigechan*Land, in Hokkaido, which opened in 2001. Shigechan is the nickname of Mr. Onishi. Before constructing his kingdom, he worked as an illustrator and provided several paintings for famous...
I had a four-day trip to Obihiro, the east part of Hokkaido. The main purpose was to visit a ruined train arch bridge that exists in Nukabira Lake. I knew the existence of this old abandoned rail arch bridge because of the awesome scenery. However, l couldn’t visit it until now because of the long distance from Hakodate to Nukabira. One day, I heard on the TV...
It was a very long time ago that I visited the farm of ostriches in Ishioka, Ibaraki. I watched a TV program about this farm recently and I realized that it has continued breeding ostriches for a very long time. Also, I found out that there is a huge ostrich egg on which we can step and it can never be broken by the weight of a human. So I wanted to visit there for a...
It is not a religious place but is a place of love. The Temple of Leah is a private temple with Roman-style architecture that was constructed on the hilltop of the Cebu suburbs. Mr. Teodorico S. Adarna built this luxurious castle for his deceased wife, Leah, and opened it to the public with an entrance fee. In May 2024, we visited there as part of a city tour of Cebu...
This isn’t a curious Japanese place, but it is a very enjoyable and sacred spot on Cebu Island. So I’ll write a report on my webpage. This shrine is very famous to not only all of the residents of Cebu Island but also Filipinos because of the miracle stories of Mama Maria. If you pray to the statue of Maria in the Simala Church, your wish will...
There are a few memorial theme parks for the Warring States periods in Japan. I visited one of the parks – Ise-Azuchi Momoyama Cultural Village – which has since changed its name to Tomoiki-no-Kuni, Ise Ninja Kingdom, in the winter of 2008. In this park, all of the staff wore old-style Japanese kimono and welcomed us with a very high price: 7500 yen...
I couldn’t believe that there were residents of this Japanese-style castle in Yasugi, Shimane. Additionally, they built this real castle themselves with the exception of mounting its roofs. I found this unique building on a TV show and wanted to visit there. Then, I went to Yasugi to look around its traditional exterior in the spring of 2009. I drove my RX...
I found a brochure for the museum when I visited a sake brewery on my trip to Hida-Takayama in the spring of 2001. It was the Hikaru Memorial Hall, which was the former name of the museum, and the pamphlet showed me that they exhibited their research results of Geology and Archeology in the hall. I was so interested in this place and went to the museum soon after...
One man tried to move a big stone using heavy machinery for land preparation in 2004 in Aso, Kumamoto. When he began to break the stone, the excavator suddenly bit the dust. He repaired it and tried again, but the machine didn’t work twice in front of the stone. He couldn’t find the reason why the machine didn’t work well and finished his...
I was in Nagoya because I had to attend a one-day meeting in the Spring of 2021. Nagoya is a big city and there are so many sightseeing spots. I hadn’t enough time to visit several viewpoints, so I decided to go to a bizarre temple: Toganji Temple. There is the Nagoya Daibutsu in the temple, which was colored dark green on his whole body. It is a very rare...