Yamagata Pref. Sakatashi Imoriyama 2-13 Inside Iimoriyama Park
I discovered Domon Ken photography, in Rome, when just by chance I saw a huge exposition on his life work. So when we went to Japan, we went to Sakata just to see his museum. We spent a whole aftern...
Kaikoji temple just north of Sakata city centre is home to not just one, but two self-mummified monks. There is a display that shows some of the actual tools and garments the monks used during their t...
The thing that struck me about visiting the Town Home of Tomekichi Aoyama, a very well-to-do Japanese person, was that he lived what many of us today would describe as a very basic life. Inside water...
We paid the small fee (300 yen) to enter. Its not a large museum but it was interesting. I had no idea there were so many varieties of rice. The two scenes with historical items made from rice plants...