Monthly Archive: May, 2018

Nara is home to one of Japan’s outstanding tea-growing districts. Tea cultivation in Japan began over 1200 years ago, and “Yamato-cha” is still grown today in Tsukigase, Tawara and other parts of Nara. Pure water, fertile land, and the extreme temperature difference between night and day help produce wonderful tea. In Tawara, you can see the beautiful rows of fresh green tea plants...

You can see uniquely designed manhole covers all across Japan. Interest in the covers is so strong that manhole cards are now distributed by “Gesuido Koho Platform” (The Sewerage PR Society) for free. There are 342 kinds and collecting them is now popular. You can get a Nara city manhole card at “NARANICLE” Nara city information center by just answering...