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New vending machines in Tokyo Station offering you nice relaxing experience with tea in chabacco, not tobacco!
TOKYO, May 18 – It looks exactly like a box of tobacco, but it’s not. It’s “chabacco”- a box of powdered Japanese tea leaves, and its sales in vending machines have just been launched in Tokyo Station. Each box is beautifully designed with the motifs of tea plantations, Mt. Fuji, and tea-picking ladies, for example. One box contains a total of eight sticks of powdered tea leaves in variety such as fukamushi deep steamed green tea and roasted bancha tea. It costs 500 yen per box. The chabacco vending machines were placed on May 14 in Gransta in-station shopping and dining area in Tokyo Station ahead of the World No … Continue reading
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Our Noh no Ikebana ： “Greenery start sparkling after long snowy winter,” says Miyuki Kurotaki, 61, from Minami Uonuma city, Niigata Prefecture (May 4)
I began Noh no Ikebana five years ago. I love how we can freely enjoy arranging vegetables and flowers in whatever way we like, because in Noh no Ikebana, there are no ryuha (schools) or rules like the ones in traditional flower arrangements. We can apply our sense and feeling that we have from our daily work as farmers, and that’s why we can make such dynamic and lively arrangements. The title of this arrangement is “Spring has come.” A cabbage shows its face from the surface of the snow after long cold winter. Wild vegetables sprout amid thawing snow. I used them as the motifs to express how the … Continue reading
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Rape blossom maze in Fukushima in full bloom
FUKUSHIMA, May 14 – A maze of rape blossoms, created on a farmland in the Kaihama district of Minamisoma, Fukushima Prefecture hit by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, is attracting visitors from outside the region. Takayuki Ueno, a 45-year-old local farmer, borrowed a farmland damaged by the tsunami and has been cultivating rapeseed and soybeans. Every year since 2013, he has been making the field open to the public after the blossoms bloom in late April in hopes of offering a place for children to enjoy. Some 10,000 people, including families with children, visit the place every year. This year, he created two mazes of rape blossoms on a 2.2-hectare … Continue reading
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Japan prepares heart-shaped watermelon for Mother’s Day gift
FUKUOKA, May 13 — If you’re looking for Mother’s Day gift ideas, give a heart-shaped watermelon. Heart-shaped watermelons appeared for Mother’s Day display at Iwataya Department Store in Fukuoka’s busy shopping district. One heart-shaped watermelon prices at 10,800 yen ($98). The department store sells some 20 pieces every year.
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Giant gingerbread home is back during Golden Week holidays
TOKYO, May 4 — A giant gingerbread house emerged in the busy shopping district of Jiyugaoka Station during the Golden Week holidays. The three-meter gingerbread house used some 2,000 pieces of candies and other sweets, according to the event organizer. When started building a gingerbread house in time for the Golden Week holidays 10 years ago, the house was as high as two meters, the organizer said.
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