Tamamo
Gate in Tamamo Park In case you forgot, Tamamo Park is the park on the grounds of Takamatsu’s castle, also called Tamamo Castle.
Tsukimi Yagura (literally: “Moon-viewing Tower”) is one of the very few original remaining parts of the original Tamamo-jo (aka Takamatsu’s castle). It used to stand by the water, but nowadays, a street and part of the port are between the tower and the water.
Aji used to be a small village near Takamatsu. It is now part of Takamatsu (right east of Yashima). It is (locally only?) famous for its stone, the Aji stone, that is a very high quality stone and that is used for the best sculptures, traditional lamps and more […]
Tamamo-jō Tsukimi Yagura (Takamatsu Castle’s Moon-viewing tower) in Takamatsu. One of the few remaining original parts of the castle.
Among the many cultural events that take place in Takamatsu and around during the summer, I almost didn’t have time to go to Shiro Café, that opened for a few weeks and that closed this past Sunday (we were among the very last visitors). Shiro Café was a café/shop/exhibit […]
A few months ago, I became the owner of this very cute xenomorph (that the alien from the movie Alien for you people not obsessed with Alien movies out there). Funny, how I stopped caring about figures and figurines when I hit puberty, but since I’ve moved […]
As I mentioned before, I’m both fascinated and ambivalent about the fact and the way Japanese people reconstruct their old destroyed castles. However, I heard that they’re trying to do things right with Takamatsu’s castle (i.e. rebuild it as close as possible to the original, no funky things like […]
At least part of the Takamatsu castle. If I’m not wrong, it’s the Tsukimi Yagura (Moon Viewing Turret), well, it’s the one next to the road between the castle and the port. Recently, I heard of two people who visited Takamatsu and didn’t go to Tamamo Park (the […]
Today, just a few pictures (and a video) of a Sunday spent in Takamatsu (it was Sunday, October 17th if you wonder). During the three months that the Setouchi International Art Festival lasted there were a bunch of cultural events here and there associated to it, especially […]