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		<title>Osaka castle Ume Sakura 2011 &#8211; The Beginning</title>
		<description><![CDATA[All the photos are from the last Sunday &#8211; 20th of February. In general this year the ume sakura comes a little bit later than usual. Previous years at that the time the ume trees were in full blossom but as you will see from the photos bellow this year they just started to flower [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chottomatte.net/blog/2011/02/27/osaka-castle-ume-sakura-2011-the-beginning/</link>
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		<title>Kanazawa &#8211; Kenrokuen Garden Winter 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Finally I know why it almost never snows in Kobe or Tokyo &#8211; simply because all the snow fall is in Kanazawa! So if you want to see a real winter in Japan and you have no time to go to Hokkaido &#8211; just go to the Japanese Sea shore. There will be plenty of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chottomatte.net/blog/2011/01/31/kanazawa-kenrokuen-garden-winter-2011/</link>
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		<title>Tokyo Christmas New Year 2010/1011 &#8211; The Shinjuku Southern Lights</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tokyo definitely must be one of the most decorated Christmas/New Year cities in the world. Shinjuku is only one of the hundreds must see spots. Here is a photo walk through this year decoration. First &#8211; the approach to Shinjuku station &#8211; just after a rain. Alive and full of lights as usually: Getting closer: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chottomatte.net/blog/2011/01/01/tokyo-christmas-new-year-20101011-the-shinjuku-southern-lights/</link>
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		<title>Kobe Luminarie 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Finally we did it &#8211; we succeeded to visit Kobe Luminarie 2010 (for pictures from 2009 click here and here). Only 25-30 min walking from Kobe Motomachi station and the  fairy tail of light begins: This is the main entrance. After it there is almost a kilometer long street covered in light arcades. Every year [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chottomatte.net/blog/2010/12/12/kobe-luminarie-2010/</link>
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		<title>Sumadera Koyo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yet another autumn leaves (Koyo) blog entry. This time it is from Sumadera temple &#8211; a very nice (and not very well known) shrine complex near Suma beach Kobe. The easiest way to reach it is Suma beach JR station &#8211; after that around 15 min. walk direction toward the mountain. The temple has both [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chottomatte.net/blog/2010/12/11/sumadera-koyo/</link>
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		<title>Sasayama Koyo &#8211; Japan Autumn 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After long interruption it is time for a new blog entry. This time it is from Sasayama (篠山) Hyogo prefecture. It takes around one hour by bus from Kobe &#8211; Sannomiya but you can reach it with JR railway also. We stayedd in Unitopia Sasayma (ユニトピアささやま) &#8211; a nice hotel with big lake in front [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chottomatte.net/blog/2010/12/04/sasayama-koyo-japan-autumn-2010/</link>
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		<title>Kobe Winery &#8211; Early Autumn Trip</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This year we haven&#8217;t skip the Kobe winery trip organized by school. The timing was perfect &#8211; just a day after the summer heat finally finished. It takes around 25-30 min from the center of Kobe to reach the winery (with the school bus). Basically you have to take a long tunnel starting from Shinkansen [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chottomatte.net/blog/2010/09/26/kobe-winery-early-autumn-trip/</link>
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		<title>HeartCatch PreCure &#8211; Live Show</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every girl (and I am sure many boys) are crazy about HeartCatch PreCure in Japan nowadays. You can sell anything as far as you put the PreCure images on it! Who are HeartCatch PreCure? A bunch of super girls who are fighting evil forces, of course. BTW the evil forces often take the form of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chottomatte.net/blog/2010/09/21/heartcatch-precure-live-show/</link>
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		<title>Kanazawa Fish Market</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kanazawa is famous for its Kenrokuen garden (here you can see it by day and here by night). But here is another place which you should&#8217;t miss and this is the Kanazawa fish market. It is called Omicho and it dates back to 18 century. It is alive and filled with energy &#8211; almost the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chottomatte.net/blog/2010/09/11/kanazawa-fish-market/</link>
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		<title>Kobe Obon Dancing Summer 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here are the photos and the video from this year Obon Dancing festival (or Obon odori &#8211; お盆踊り in Japanese). Even though it looks like it is in the middle of the countryside it was just a few hundred meters from our apartment in one of the parks of HAT Kobe. As usual there were [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chottomatte.net/blog/2010/08/23/kobe-obon-dancing-summer-2010/</link>
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