Maigo in Hyogo: June ’12
These hills are alive with a million flowers…
Know where this photo was taken? Maigo in Hyogo challenges you to recognize more of our beautiful prefecture!
For past issues of Maigo in Hyogo, click here
These hills are alive with a million flowers…
Know where this photo was taken? Maigo in Hyogo challenges you to recognize more of our beautiful prefecture!
For past issues of Maigo in Hyogo, click here
This temple’s rock garden was designed to represent the beach where a teenager was killed in single combat. His death is one of the most famous in Japanese history. His killer renounced his samurai life soon after and became a Buddhist monk. This place has some serious education going on…any guesses?
Where’s this?
I’ll give you two hints for this one: it’s not in Tokyo, and it’s not the Goblin Kingdom…as far as I know -I WAS pretty broke and pretty lost when I found this place. Where am I? What’s going on?!
Where in Hyogo can you have such sweet back-of-house seats?
You see them walking down the street on the way to a wedding. You see them wrapped around white-faced maiko as they flutter past you in Gion. You see them at summer festivals and accompanying the click-clack of wooden geta along the riverfront of Kinosakionsen. The Japanese kimono. There is nothing else like it. For…
Perhaps not exactly within Hyogo, this month’s bonus Maigo begs the question: where can you pay final respects to these dearly departed pirates?
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akashi kaikyo national park, awaji island,
This picture shows tulips surrounded by colourful flowers.