Although autumn is not here, the first autumn cold seems to be. Just as my wife had to go on a business trip, and I had some photography work to do, my son got a cold and had to stay at home from kindergarten. I did not want him to spend the days just watching […]
Although we have already entered September, with summer holidays over and kindergarten’s second trimester having started, autumn is still nowhere in sight. It has been hot hot and this weekend when it was time for this year’s summer festival in the nearby park, was no exception. My son has been looking forward to this festival
A long holiday is coming to an end. Rainy days, too hot days – summer is interesting in many ways here in Japan (though we are still waiting for this year’s first typhoon) and the time spent indoors has been quite extensive. So to make everyday life feel new we have tried to make something
Time for the forth and final post on museums this summer. This time UNKO MUSEUM – the poop museum, a temporary museum in a building adjacent to the baseball stadium in Fukuoka. We had seen posters for this museum in spring when we went to a Tomica toy car event at the same venue and
Another week, another museum, this time the immersive ukiyo-e temporary exhibition in Hakata, Fukuoka. I have all summer seen advertisements on Instagram for this exhibition, and I really got tempted to go and experience this for myself. It was the last week of the exhibition when we finally made it to Hakata station. I had
New week – new museum. This time we went on a road trip to Kitakyushu and the Museum of Natural History. Kitakyushu means northern Kyushu, and is a town situated in the north of our island Kyushu (a very logical name one might think), an hour’s drive away. We have gone to Kitakyushu a few times
Summer holidays and 36 degrees outside – what can top going to a cool (and cool) museum, exploring art, culture and history together with your 5 year old son? Well, I would say going with your son and wife! This summer we have had the chance to do quite a few things together as a
Summer holidays are here and so are summer colds. Even before the holidays started my son got a fever and while he has been sick, the two of us have spend our days indoors trying to make the time as interesting as we can. Since it has been 35 degrees outside, a week inside a
Before the summer holidays begin and we will be focusing on small excursions, swimming school and other summery activities, I want to write a third kappa-related post. In my first post a month or so ago I introduced this mythological creature’s fancy for cucumber, and a few weeks ago I mentioned bowing being a kappa’s
While the summer days in Kyushu are like a wet sauna, the evenings are actually quite enjoyable. Even going out with the trash after the dishes are finished is a pleasure, but nothing beats an evening trip to the beach. In July the water in the sea is on the warmer side but still cool
It is not an understatement to say that my son is in to bugs. Especially so the pill bug, or ダンゴムシ (dangomushi) as it is called in Japanese. It started a year or so ago when they were searching for insects and bugs at kindergarten. My son came home and talked very vividly about dangomushi
Following the watermelon story from last year, time has come for a new story. A few weeks ago I wrote about the Japanese mythological being kappa and a red fish that I saw in the pond close by where kappa is rumored to live. When I asked my son to make a story about them,