Live music, handicrafts and cows!
Steve Jarvis introduces a different kind of countryside fair in eastern Hiroshima prefecture.
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Features
Autumn, not Autumn at the konbi
Last week I was super pumped for autumn and I still am, but…
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HIS Principal Damian Rentoule
In this day and age, its important for people to find somewhere they feel like they are welcome. I felt
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Hiroshima’s Soul Food: Okonomiyaki
You haven’t done Hiroshima if you haven’t done Hiroshima-style okonomiyaki! Okonomiyaki, a savory pancake cooked on an iron hotplate, containing
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Konbi fall collection
September 1. OMG. Already.
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2017 Miyajima Fireworks Festival
Some of our favorite captures of the 2017 Miyajima Fireworks Festival.
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The Case of the Missing Anpan
Welcome back! As I said last week, we have lots of catching up to do! So, let’s start at the
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Travel through Hiroshima history with digital maps
Travel through time using this ingenious “now and then” widget based on historical maps of Hiroshima city.
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Views of the Miyoshi Fireworks
A compilation of some of the Instagrams of the 2017 Miyoshi City Fireworks display held on August 19 that caught
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Konbini Kapers is back
I know I said I wouldn’t do this, but I can’t help myself. I mean I could, but I don’t
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Floating Lanterns in Peace Memorial Park
Once the sun starts to go down, people line up and write messages of peace on colorful origami paper and
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August 6, 2017 Hiroshima Day
72 years ago today, US forces dropped a nuclear bomb on the people living, working and studying in Hiroshima. The
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Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park clean up
GetHiroshima joined up with EARTH Hiroshima at the clean up event, held every year in the run up to the
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Limited edition Mugen Musou kendama
Masterfully made, limited edition kendama on sale at the world champs this weekend in Hatsukaichi.
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EARTH Hiroshima
If you’re dropping by any of Hiroshima’s tourist gift shops in the coming months, you’ll likely stumble across some of
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Rare film footage of Hiroshima before the A-bomb
3 minutes of film footage of Hiroshima in the spring on 1935 released by the Peace Memorial Museum.
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Sustainability in Action : Akira Sakano interview
Akira Sakano, is a key player in the successful development and planning of the zero-waste town, Kamikatsu (Tokushima). In this
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ED2000 back in Hiroshima
Catch Berlin DJ ED2000 in two very different venues in Hiroshima this week.
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Hiroshima Carp Home Game Schedule 2017
The mighty Hiroshima Carp continue to fly high after their most successful season in a generation and a game at
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Ji-no-hi Matsuri Giant Umbrella Festival in Ohnan
The main event of this two day festival is groups of locals charging up and down a narrow street with
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Hiroshima Fusion Unite: In Memoriam
Once upon a time, there was an indie hip-hop group called Hiroshima Fusion Unite, and boy did it have potential.
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750,000 tulips at Sera Kogen Farm
The tulip fileds at Sera Kogen Farm are currently at their best. Many people took advantage of the good weather
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Our favorite “sleeping” policeman in Ohnan
A must-stop photo spot on a spring visit to Ohnan.
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Kamikatsu town is the smallest on Shikoku island, nestled in the mountains outside of Tokushima city. I made the four-plus
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Inspiration of a Zero-Waste Town
Dividing you garbage into 60 different categories may seem extreme, but my visit convinced me that it’s something every community
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Hiroshima “Counterculture” Haro
In the third part of Goto Izumi’s search for a Hiroshima counterculture she visits the studio of her own cultural
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Hiroshima “Counterculture” [nuttsuponchon]
Goto Izumi heads to Onomichi in the second leg of her search of a local counterculture. [日本語]
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Hiroshima “Counterculture” Zetsumetsukigushu
Goto Izumi heads to Osuga’s “Eki Nishi” ditrict in search of a Hiroshima counterculture.
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“Sakura Station” Ushio
Spring 2017 is the last chance to ride the train to enjoy the cherry blossoms at “sakura station” Ushio on
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Searching for Hiroshima “counterculture”
Goto Izumi goes in pursuit of an outsider art movement in Hiroshima.
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