Traditional Japanese tea at Tokyo's Sakurai Tea cafe | Where Locals Go
Japan’s tea tradition has been thriving for many centuries, and nowhere is it more of a cultural science than Sakurai Tea cafe in Tokyo, where tea master Shinya Sakurai says he communicates what’s in his heart through his tea. Making seasonal blends and using specific tools, he explains his process. Read more:
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The first show of this new band JimmySKAURAI Plays ZEP in Tokyo.
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I woke up to light drizzle in Nara. The TV indicated Typhoon Saola was approaching Okinawa and was drawing the clouds over western Japan into its counter-clockwise whirl. Breakfast at 5:30 a.m. from the 7-Eleven across the street – nothing else was open. Today, I move hotel 10-doors up the street for 1 night since the Washington Hotel had only 2 nights open and couldn’t accommodate me for 3 nights. Short 30-min train ride to Sakurai, another place which has lots of things-to-see associated with being the cradle of Japan’s civilization. The Sakurai tourist center didn’t have any Engish maps nor English speaking staff but the lady was very helpful. With both our limited foreign language skills I managed to figure out some plans for today. The sights I wanted to see are far apart and requires train or bus rides so I decided on a limited plan for today’s BURA-BURA. The lady said if I hurry, I can catch the next train to visit the Omiwa Shrine. While I was waiting for the train, she rushed to the boarding platform with a coupla xeroxed maps she managed to find. Wow, over/beyond service! Caught the train – 10 minutes or so to Miwa. Managed to find the Omiwa Shrine which is among the oldest shrines in Japan. Being a Saturday, it was quite busy with weddings and kids decked out in their grandest kimonos. Saw a nice new quaint restaurant just outside the temple grounds. Took a peek and the young couple running the place greeted me at the door. AHA, got caught peeking so I went in. No English menu and very limited English spoken but I managed to get their suggestion. They serve somen and they had this whirlpool on the table. You grab some somen, drop it into the whirling cold water and catch a chopstick full of somen, dip it in the sauce and eat it. After a while I got tired of fishing for somen so I just dipped it directly into the sauce and finished my lunch. Very interesting and delicious lunch. The Yamanobe No Michi, a historic hiking rode/trail, runs past the Shrine. It is one of the oldest road mentioned in Japanese history. It starts from Tokyo and goes through small villages and past lots of historic places. I had a hard time finding the trail at Omiwa Shrine, asked about a dozen folks. Didn’t find any English speaking person but finally a temple maiden in the white/orange dress (actually I spoke to a couple of them) helped me and with finger pointing, etc, managed to find the trail, a good portion of which is now part of small car lanes running through interesting subdivisions. I started to walk it to Sakurai City station, about 3 kilometers or usually a 45-minute walk. It started drizzling, I lost my way many times, asked to be pointed back to the trail and so went zig-zagging around. It took me over an hour in the light rain to reach Sakurai station. By then it was 2 p.m. so I went wiki-wiki back to Nara on the next train. Checked into my hotel room, went botcha and looked for a place to eat. Finally settled on an (another) okonomiyaki place several doors down the street.
Learning outside Japan, telling Tohoku to the world | Ryotaro Sakurai | TEDxTohokuUniversity
Born in Sendai, Japan, Mr. Sakurai moved to Seattle, Washington USA in 1989 for his high school education. He then went to Richmond, London to get his undergraduate degree. Mr. Sakurai’s passion is education and globalization. He believes, by learning abroad, that one can learn not only information and one's own specialities, but much more beyond. He is now the owner of LifeBridge Inc., a consulting service for Japanese who want to study abroad.
仙台で生まれ、1989 年に高校入学のためシアトルに渡米。その後リッチモンドに渡り大学学位を取得。 教育とグローバリゼーションに力を注ぐ。 海外経験を通して、人は知識や専門性だけではなくそれ以上のものを得られると感じている。現在は LifeBridge Inc.のオーナーとして、留学を希望する日本人へのコンサルティングサービスを行っている。
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[ Okachimachi(Tokyo)： Japanese Style Western Food ]Sakurai
A popular western-style restaurant in Ueno that gives you the nostalgic taste of the olden days.
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Sakurai Seiji (Boss Crusher) and family threw me a BBQ party
VONZEP Japan Tour 2011
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Sakurai Says Japan Growth May Worsen in Second Quarter
May 19 (Bloomberg) -- Yuuki Sakurai, president at Fukoku Capital Management Inc. in Tokyo, talks about the outlook for Japan's economy and central bank monetary policy and currency.
Japan's economy shrank more than estimated in the first quarter after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami disrupted production and prompted consumers to cut back spending, sending the nation to its third recession in a decade. Sakurai speaks with Rishaad Salamat on Bloomberg Television's On the Move Asia. (Source: Bloomberg)
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greg howe , dennis chambers ,Tetsuo Sakurai , akira onozuka Gentle Hearts Tour 2004.
Bass-Tetsuo Sakurai Drums-Dennis Chambers Guitar-Greg Howe Keyboard-Akira Onozuka.
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Fukoku's Sakurai Likes Japan's Auto, Construction Stocks
July 19 (Bloomberg) -- Yuuki Sakurai, president at Fukoku Capital Management Inc. in Tokyo, talks about Japan's economy and stocks.
Equities in Japan are rising more than any other developed country on speculation earnings will improve as the country recovers from its strongest earthquake. Sakurai speaks with Rishaad Salamat on Bloomberg Television's On the Move Asia. (Source: Bloomberg)
JimmySAKURAI w/ LED ZEPAGAIN..[HEARTBREAKER]
Jimmy Sakurai played w/LED ZEPAGAIN..HEARTBREAKER at EX Theater Roppongi, Tokyo,Japan on Sep 23rd,2014.
[ Okachimachi(Tokyo) ：Japanese Style Western Food,Bistro ]Sakurai
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A popular Yoshoku restaurant in the Ueno neighborhood.
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Hasedera temple, Sakurai Nara Japan
According to the description on the bronze plaque known as the Hokke Sessō-zu (銅板法華説相図 dōban hokke sessō zu), which is enshrined at Hase-dera,the temple was first built in 686 and dedicated to Emperor Tenmu, who was suffering from a disease. Later, in the year 727, the temple was expanded by order of Emperor Shōmu and a statue of the eleven-faced Kannon was placed near the original temple that enshrined the bronze plaque. The temple has been burned down and rebuilt as many as ten times since the 10th century.
During the Heian period the temple was favored by members of the nobility such as the authors of the Kagerō Nikki and the Sarashina Nikki. Hase-dera was consistently popular with visitors, helped by the fact it was situated on what was then the route to the Ise Shrine.Later still, Hase-dera flourished as one of the centers of the reformed Shingon Buddhism, particularly after the arrival of priest Sen'yo from Negoro-ji in 1588.
The current Main Hall is a reconstruction of 1650 built using donations from Tokugawa Iemitsu. A covered wooden staircase (登廊 noborirō), 200 metres long, leads to the Hall from the Niō Gate.Visitors are especially numerous in the spring, when the 700 Chinese peonies that line the staircase are in bloom,and in the fall, when the leaves of the many maple trees in the temple grounds have turned red.
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