2011 setsubun in Japan is approaching and there could be no doubt about it! In every shop, in every combini, on every street you can see the signs. The concept is simple – chase away the evil by throwing at it roasted soy beans (or fuku mame (福豆) in Japanese). Here are some of this [...]
The photo is taken from a bridge above the JR line. You can see Kobe, Nada ku. It was snowing on Roku mountain at that time. Very clean and frisky (as for Japan) winter afternoon. Bookmark on DeliciousDigg this postRecommend on Facebookshare via RedditShare with StumblersTweet about itSubscribe to the comments on this post
Sakura is coming and chottomatte team decided to start a new project – the SakuraMeter. But before the real sakura (cherry blossom) comes the ume (梅 – Japanese plum or apricot tree) blossom is almost here. We decided to follow a single ume tree coming to blossom. We started yesterday on the 6th of January [...]
Yet another “only in Japan” cool product found by the chottomatte’s team! Ume (梅) in Japan are called the plum tree fruits. They are very popular and usually are sold as extremely soar pickles called umeboshi (梅干 literally “ume dry”). Believe it or not even though the umeboshi are ultra-soar – they do not taste [...]
After presenting you the cutest ever road barriers and batteries chottomatte team is proud to present another fine product of the Japanese kawaii industry – the cutest ever mobile phone chargers! They all come from the conbini store of Keio Plaza hotel, Tokyo. First is the AU model – stylish pinku (pink – jp.) with [...]
