I have been dreaming up of a mascot for my beloved blog for a while now, but never took the time to properly think about it, until recently. Few weeks ago, I brought up this idea to great artist and comrade Radiant, who helped me a lot to mature my mascot concept, and in the [...]

While sorting the photos I took during my trip in Japan, and especially those from Kyoto, I realized I still had a bunch of pictures of Tokyo’s region waiting to be uploaded. So before switching to Kansai, here is an overview of Kamakura temples and shrines, the remaining of what I already started to share [...]

Last weekend I visited friends in Provence, another beautiful region in France, but a bit far from my home town. And since summer is at its height, we decided to go and enjoy the Mediterranean coast. As you can see, the lovely Seena tagged along. She was actually waiting for a chance to try and [...]

While walking along the Sumidagawa, near Asakusa district, we happened to spot this funny and completely unexpected view of the Tokyo Sky Tree reflection in the golden building of Asahi breweries headquarters. The Tokyo Sky Tree (東京スカイツリー Tōkyō Sukai Tsurī) is a broadcasting, restaurant, and observation tower under construction in the Narihirabashi/Oshiage area of Sumida [...]

Here is the continuation of our trip in Japan, with this time a day spent in Taito-ku, one of the 23 special wards of Tokyo. This was certainly one of the most exhausting day, as it was terribly hot and we walked a lot between Ueno Kōen, Asakusa district, and along Sumidagawa. But I think [...]

A torii (鳥居 lit. bird perch) is a traditional Japanese gate most commonly found at the entrance of or within a Shinto shrine, where it symbolically marks the transition from the sacred to the profane. The presence of a torii at the entrance is usually the simplest way to identify Shinto shrines. Torii were traditionally [...]

While visiting 上野公園 (Ueno Kōen), a spacious public park located in the Ueno district of Taito-ku, in Tokyo, I spotted this sanctuary, a bit isolated from the main path. I don’t really know its purpose, but I couldn’t help taking a snap of this lovely scene, emphasized thanks to this lady in a middle of [...]