I have been putting details of the annual traditional Japanese art crafts exhibition on GetHiroshima for years, but, to be honest, always thought it looked a bit boring. Yesterday, I actually went More »
The Rirenight club tour aims to bring a little bit of Tokyo nightlife to the provinces. Having kicked off in Fukuoka back in November, rolled through Sapporo earlier this month, it lands More »
At the end of July last year, many, both in Japan and among the electronic music community worldwide, were shocked to hear the news that the Kyoto-based electronic music producer from Hiroshima, More »
Tokyo firm Elephant Design has a keen appreciation of the value of the point of view of the consumer. Their Mite-koko (“Look here!”) exhibition at the Oriental Hotel encourages us all to More »
The favorites, Hyogo Prefecture, won the 2012 National Interprefectural Men’s Ekiden Championships held in Hiroshima yesterday. More »
High quality coffee roaster
If you have eaten at many of the city’s more tendy restaurants and cafes, there is a good chance you have been enjoyed a cup or two of Green Coffee. You can get this great coffee at home too, by picking up a bag from this little shop in Danbara (2 blocks over from the rear exit of Hiroshima’s Hijiyama park) or by having it delivered to your door. Kick back and sample a cup while your beans, lovingly selected and roasted on the premises, are prepared.
Chugoku Shinbun reports a dramatic increase in the number of householders applying for solar energy subsidies in Kure City.
The ritual firing of the first arrow of the year takes places at Ōmoto Shrine on Miyajima every year on January 20.
The Hiroshima team came 12th in the Women’s Inter Prefectural Ekiden won by Osaka in Nagoya last weekend. On Sunday, January 22 it is the turn of the men, who will be hoping to better their excellent 3rd place of last year over the 48km course between Peace Park and Miyajima.
