Today, I’m going to tell you a thing or two about Tamamo Park in Takamatsu. Tamamo-koen used to be Takamatsu Castle grounds. However, the castle is gone (it was partly destroyed during the Meiji Period for reasons unknown to me, and the US Air Force finished to raze it […]
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Iwaseo Hachiman-gū in Takamatsu is a special temple to me. It has nothing special in appearance, it looks like many other Shintō temples all over the country, although it is one of the main ones in Takamatsu if not the main one. It’s special to me for two reasons, […]
There are many things in the Takamatsu Symbol Tower: offices, conference rooms, a tourist office and many other things. However, in the third (or fourth, I forgot) floor, there’s a place for kids and teenagers. A place for them to study, read (there’s small library), get together, […]
As promised, today, I’m starting to tell you about some works from the Setouchi International Art Festival into more details. The first artwork I am going to talk about is Artwork number 3 in the official numbering of the festival and it is called Project for Sea-Light in Takamatsu (高松うみあかりプロジェクト), […]
Unfortunately, I don’t have that much to tell you about Negoro-ji apart from the fact that it’s the 82th Temple of the Shikoku Pilgrimage, that it is located in a forest on top of a small mountain from which the view of Sakaide, Takamatsu and parts of the Seto […]
As you may already know, Shikoku is famous among other things for its Pilgrimage of 88 Buddhist Temples. I’m sure that I will talk about it into more details another day as today I am going to focus on only one of those temples; temple number 80, Sanuki Kokubunji […]
It was of course in Kaihō, my favorite sushi restaurant, possibly in the world (with Hotaru in Paris). This is what I ate: And this is what 康代 ate: Of course, I more than advise you to go when you’re in Takamatsu (for example when you […]
Last Friday morning, Thierry, 康代 and I, accompanied by Nobuko-san, had the immense privilege to be the guests of Chūjō Zaidan, a Sukiya, a tea-house, in Takamatsu. We had the honor to be part of a genuine tea ceremony, a thing I never thought I would do. But thanks […]