Tag: Japan

  • Three saltwater hot springs in the world

    Three saltwater hot springs in the world

    Every time you mention Zhaori Hot Springs on Green Island, I believe some people will jump out and proudly saying that one of the three most rare saltwater hot springs in the world is in Taiwan Island.

    Some introductions on the Internet will also write that Asahi Hot Springs are salt water hot springs that are rare in the world when seawater penetrates into the rock formations. After being heated by geothermal heat, they are gushing out under high pressure. There will be no stickiness either. This spring can be bathed but not drunk. It has the salty taste of sea water. It is quite unique. There are only three places on the earth.

    In short, the three legendary saltwater hot springs are located in Green Island of the Republic of China, Kyushu of the Japan, and Sicilia, Repubblica Italiana.

    Regardless of whether Green Island is subordinate to Taiwan Island, it has this kind of politically correct question (Mizou prefers the concept of four islands and eight islands, each island in the country has its own independence). In fact, the concept of the “three saltwater hot springs in the world” has been a rumor that has been circulating for many years, from the rumor of the tour guide of the team to the Internet rumor with the development of technology.

    I have personally experienced saltwater hot springs, including Guishan Island, Old Jinshan Governor Hot Spring in Jinshan District in the northern part of Taiwan Island, Haori Hot Spring in Green Island, Hiranai Sea Hot Spring in Yakushima, and Hot Water Beach in North Island of the New Zealand, there are already four and a half by the calculation.

    Welcome all national tourist organizations to invite me! Well, it’s okay for the extraterrestrial.

  • When should matsutake be roasted and eaten before it is the most delicious?

    When should matsutake be roasted and eaten before it is the most delicious?

    A question often encountered in Japanese autumn seasonal food is about “When will the matsutake be grilled until it is the most delicious?”

    Although matsutake is produced in many places on the earth, Japan is the first country that took the lead in the price of matsutake and is regarded as a national treasure. It is definitely not Japan. Matsutake is known as the “king of all mushrooms” and is now 90% of the world. The matsutake mushrooms are eaten in Japan.

    In fact, according to the catalogue of Chinese fungi, the official name of Matsutake is Tricholoma matsutake, also known as Tricholoma matsutake. It belongs to the phylum Basidiomycota, Tricholomaceae, and Tricholoma genus. It is native to mainland China and has a history of eating for 7000 years. As an expensive medicine, it is not used as a general food ingredient. At present, the five major regions in mainland China, including Yajiang Rong District in Sichuan and Linzhi Rong District in Tibet, are rich in production areas, while North Korea, Japan and South Korea are also well-known production areas for high-quality matsutake.

    When enjoying grilled matsutake in a Japanese restaurant, a small stove is often placed on the table. The intention is to allow customers to bake the sliced matsutake by themselves, so that they can enjoy the fragrant taste at the most delicious moment.

    However, many people are sure to wonder, at what degree of maturity should I roast Matsutake?

    In fact, not only you may have this question, but even the Japanese themselves are not clear about it. I still remember an episode of Crayon Shin-chan. The whole family stared at a slice of matsutake, but they were afraid of eating raw food and roasted them until they were fully cooked. This was equivalent to wasting the unique aroma of matsutake.

    According to the proprietress of a traditional Japanese inn, when grilling matsutake mushrooms, just wait until they start to sweat, and you can eat them! The so-called sweating is the appearance of water droplets, which means that the internal temperature rises and the moisture is forced out.

    Remarks: There are people in the market now pushing “Brazil Matsutake”. The actual name is Agaricus blazei. It belongs to the Agaricaceae family. It is two completely different fungi from Matsutake. However, because of the low price, unscrupulous merchants often sell Matsutake.

  • Can a lighter take a plane to travel abroad?Old Smoker's travel tips

    Can a lighter take a plane to travel abroad?Old Smoker's travel tips

    If you are an old cigarette gun, the most distressing question when traveling abroad and doing business is surely whether you can carry a lighter with you when you fly.

    Basically, in most countries around the world Customs regulations, gas, kerosene and other fuels are all contraband, strictly prohibited to carry.So classical lighters, such as Zippo, are not portable.However, there are safe lighters with electric heating on the market, which can be carried on board in countries such as the Republic of China and Japan.

    However, in order to prevent terrorist attacks and protect homeland security after the 911 incident, the United States is now almost the most stringent country on the planet for flight safety regulations.As a result, safety lighters that can be carried with them in many countries are strictly prohibited by the U.S. Transportation Safety Administration from carrying any type of lighter on board or in checked baggage.

    In addition, a part of a flight, such as inbound and outbound routes in mainland China, shall not carry a lighter, whether checked or hand luggage.Please also ask your airline in advance about the details.

    Re-declare that a lighter or jet lighter filled with kerosene cannot be carried on board with carry-on baggage or placed in checked baggage at the airport counter.

  • Can Japanese and other similar weapons such as "knives, simulation knives" carry boarding?

    Can Japanese and other similar weapons such as "knives, simulation knives" carry boarding?

    Japanese native shops are a great place to travel to buy gifts, including "knives, simulation knives" and other similar weapons items are often the favorite of many boys.For example, the Silver Soul actor holding the Hokkaido Toya Lake Wooden Knife is a lot of people to the beautiful lake to soak in the hot springs when you are sure to bring a wooden knife home of the popular gift (I am a backpack travel no space belt or would like to buy).

    While carrying this type of tool, simulation knife and other similar weapons, although there will be no problem with the checked baggage placed at the airport counter, do you know if this kind of thing can be carried on board with carry-on baggage?

    The answer is "no," even if you feel like you're just buying a toy.

    Under Japanese aviation regulations, weapons items such as knives (including imitation knives) that can be used as hijackers may not be carried on board with them.Please put it in your checked baggage.And such items, which look like weapons, include air guns, kitchen knives, paper cutters, imitation knives, wooden knives, double truncheons, hand swords, umbrellas like knives, and so on.

  • Okinawa ballad, Screaming "iyasasa (いやささ)" What does Japanese mean?

    Okinawa ballad, Screaming "iyasasa (いやささ)" What does Japanese mean?

    The mention of Okinawa, Japan (Okinawa) has also traveled more than three times, drilled a lot of rare places, but also heard a lot of Japanese words, but some words always sound particularly pleasant, such as in Okinawa traditional dance performances and Okinawa folk songs (such as three-line flowers, Islanders ぬ treasure) often can be heard. " Iyasasa (いやささ) "gives people a comfortable sense of hearing.

    Iyasasa (いやささ), with the phonetic text is similar to the pronunciation of "ㄧㄧㄚㄙㄚˋㄙㄚˋ", this word should not actually be found in the Japanese dictionary, because this is not a standard Japanese text, but is specifically belong to the local dialect of Okinawa.

    The word itself has no practical meaning, but a cry of a similar slogan in the local Ryukyu.Similar to the yelling feeling that we would shout "Hey yo Hey Yo" at the school sports meeting, it all sounds like a special spirit.

  • The historical origin of Taiwan's unique weight unit "Taiwan Jin"

    The historical origin of Taiwan's unique weight unit "Taiwan Jin"

    Although as early as 7,000 years ago, the soil of Taiwan and mainland China was connected and the ecology was balanced, but according to the historical records of the letter, the cultural contact between Taiwan and China dates back to the Li dynasty in the early more than 1000 years.But after the Ming dynasty and the Qing Dynasty, the middle was once occupied by Japan's war as a colony, until the end of the Second World War and then returned to the hands of our Chinese nation.

    Although Japan has only occupied the island of Taiwan for about 50 years, the bloody crackdown from the early days of the Japanese army, the massacre of hundreds of thousands of dissidents and the strengthening of the Japanese imperial Education in the later period have resulted in more or less flooding of Japanese customs in various parts of Taiwan after the restoration of the people.For example, the "Taiwan Jin" commonly used in Taiwan's traditional market and tea industry is an example from the flow of Japanese militarism to this day.

    Taiwan Island in the Japanese era due to the need to transport a large number of crops to Japan, or even as Japan to launch war materiel use, thus imitating the Japanese ruler, the same Taiwan Jin "Taiwan Jin", to facilitate the many uneducated people at that time at the bottom of Taiwan to convert.After the restoration of Taiwan by the Republic of China, it acquiesced in the deep folk Taiwan Jin as a common unit of weight in Taiwan, and Kinmen and Mazu still used the official "Jin" of the Republic of China because they were not colonized by Japan.

    Jin, also known as Sima; two, also known as Sima Two, both are since ancient times since the traditional measures of quality and weight units.Originated in the Chinese Zhou Dynasty, and with the cultural thought passed on to the Korean Peninsula, Japan, Vietnam, Malay Peninsula and other places, the actual quality with the local and the Times have a slight change.At present, it is mostly the usual weight units of traditional markets and comptoirs (such as tea lines).

    In ancient China, there was an official position called "Sima", Sima mainly in charge of the military, of which because forage management needs to weigh, so "sima" and weight units on the relationship.Since the beginning of the week, China has had weight units: Jin, two, money, points, so called "Sima", "Sima two" and so on, the measurement of the tool is called "Sima Scale", this standard is also known as "Sima Ping system logo."A Sima equals 16 sima Two, the idiom "dozen" is so coming.

  • In which five countries can the Republic of China passport Use automatic customs clearance to avoid queuing?

    In which five countries can the Republic of China passport Use automatic customs clearance to avoid queuing?

    Everyone traveling abroad with a pleasant mood, most afraid of the airport customs encounter queuing crowds, often a row of more than 10 minutes or even half an hour is a common thing.

    In fact, with the closer exchanges between China and other countries, five world powers have opened up to our use of automatic customs clearance services, as long as the prior application can easily carry the passport of the Republic of China, in Japan, South Korea, the United States, Britain and Australia, the five major countries for rapid customs clearance.

    Japanese (Japan)

    In 2016, Japan launched the Trust Passenger program (Trusted Traveler program, referred to as TTP), which allows visitors to apply as long as they meet 5 conditions, including:

    1. has been to Japan more than 2 times in the past 12 months;
    2. The country in which the passport is held is the visa-free country of Japan, and the TTP is the country where the application is admissible;
    3. No record of refusal of entry or deportation by Japan in the past;
    4. No criminal record;
    5. For the past 1 years, it has been necessary to be a Japanese or Taiwanese government agency, an agency funded by the Government of Japan or Taiwan, a subsidiary or listed company in Japan, and a listed company in Taiwan.

    This automatic customs clearance function is only available at 4 Japanese airports, including Tokyo Narita, Haneda, central Nagoya, Osaka Kansai International Airport, and must be accompanied by a Japanese or English certificate and work data, which is mainly open to business people.

    Extended reading: Japan's 4 major airports implement rapid customs clearance to provide people in the Republic of China to avoid queuing for entry services.

    Evergreen Air EVA
    Prepare to sail to Japan's Evergreen Airlines Kitty Jet (Photo: Fan)

    Korea (South Korea)

    South Korea (or South Korea) signed a memorandum of understanding with the Republic of China on "Reciprocal use of automatic customs clearance for Taiwan and Korea" in 2018.Any citizen of the Republic of China who travels to Korea from now on will be able to apply when he or she reaches the age of 17.

    When the first bidder arrives in Korea, he must enter the country manually, then carry his passport to the designated location of the SES registration centre where he can apply, fill out the electronic application form, collect the applicant's photo and fingerprint image through the registrar, and finally pass the approval, affixed with the SES registration sticker to complete the application.

    Extended reading: South Korea travel: How to handle the SeS automatic Customs clearance service of Korea Airport customs?

    South Korea Airport SES screening L2
    Status of automatic customs clearance services in South Korea

    United States of America (US)

    The United States of America, for short, has included Chinese Republic of China travellers in the Global entry plan since 2017.Now, as long as you apply through the US global online registration system and pass the interview, you can use a dedicated channel to enter the country at a designated U.S. airport without queuing up.To apply for a passenger, you must first fill out the application form on the United States Trust Passenger Program website, and an interview will be arranged when the application is approved.

    Application fee: USD 100.

    United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (Unit Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, UK)

    In the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, for short, the registered passenger service was introduced in 2016, and as long as a visitor to the Republic of China who has reached the age of 18 has a British visa or 4 records of visits to the UK within 2 years, it can be applied through the official website of the British Foreign Office to find out if the application is successful.

    Application fee: GBP 70; 50 pounds will be refunded upon withdrawal.

    Commonwealth of Australia (Commonwealth of Australian, AU)

    The Commonwealth of Australia, or Australia, in 2017 to include the Republic of China visitors in the Smart Gate program, as long as you reach the age of 16 and hold the Republic of China chip passport, as well as the Australian e-tourism visa (ETA), do not have to register in advance, after arriving at the main airport can bring a passport to Smart Gate automatic customs clearance machine before processing, in the future can be used in Australia automatic customs clearance services.

  • Forbidden City South Court "Japan Fine Arts Tokyo Kyushu Island Museum" Special exhibition, parent-child travel to enjoy great value concessions!

    Do parents who are interested in Japanese art think about where they are going for their winter vacation?From the day after tomorrow you can take the children to visit the South courtyard of the Forbidden City in Jiayi!The southern courtyard of the National Palace Museum launched a special event on parent-child tour "The most special exhibition of Fine Arts in Japan" during the winter vacation this year.From January 14 to February 12, as long as 1 parents purchase 1 full-ticket packages, they can bring free admission to 3 of the following students in the country at the same time, and the Palace South Court invites a family to enjoy the national treasure of Japan. The National Palace Museum said that during the winter holiday this year, the Palace South Court on display "Japan's Best Art-Tokyo, Kyushu Island Museum Boutique Exhibition", the scene will be displayed a variety of commonly rare Japanese classic artifacts.In order to encourage the whole family to travel together, the South Court in particular launched the "parent-child tour South Court, package discount" program. The Forbidden City pointed out that from 14th to February 12, as long as 1 parents purchase a full ticket of NT $250, they will be allowed to bring free admission to the "Japanese Art most" special exhibition with 3 students from the following countries.There are also a number of preferential activities such as groups, students and residents of Jiayi County City. Palace said that in addition to Japan's special special exhibition activities, during the winter vacation every Saturday still launched the Forbidden City afternoon tea activities, suitable for parents to participate in the experience, January 14 invited the whole family size can experience the "knot" production activities, the "knot" of the blessing to take home; 21st, the parents are invited to wear yukata robes, play a change show. Japanese Art at Finest 日本美術之最

    "Japan's Best Art" special exhibition preferential scheme

    Date of implementationApplicable identityPreferential SolutionsNote
    106/1/14 (Sat) to 106/2/12 (Sun)Paternity1 adults with admission to 3 students from the country
    1. Children are free and adults buy a full ticket of 250 yuan (including Chinese language Guide).
    2. Chinese language guidelines for schoolchildren are at their own expense.
    105/12/31 (Sat) to 106/3/5 (Sun)Group ticket Purchase (all votes 250 yuan)100 or more (inclusive), fare 80 percent (200 yuan). 500 or more (inclusive), fare 60 percent (150 yuan).
    1. Applicable to various organs and groups.
    2. Buy tickets in advance.
    3. It is a preferential scheme and cannot be refunded after ticket purchase.
    4. Contains Chinese language guides.
    Students studyingPurchase of preferential visitor certificates with Student ID card (RMB 150)
    1. Contains Chinese language guides.
    2. Student ID card filed by the Ministry of Education.
    Residents of Jiayi County CityAdmission is not allowed after 3 o'clock in the afternoon on the opening dayChinese language guides are subject to your own expense.
    Free visit to permanent exhibition passengers holding high-speed rail holiday voucherscan also be added to the site to purchase special exhibition coupon (150 yuan including Chinese language Guide) admission.

    "Japanese art most" Winter vacation activity Table

    Blessed Knot • Welcome to the New Year
    Date of Event106 Years January 14 (Saturday)
    Time of the venue14:00, 15:00, 40 minutes each
    Event ContentThe "Rope", also known as the straw Rope, which hangs on the home decoration, is one of the traditionally iconic rituals of the Japanese New Year.On New Year's Day, people are invited to create exclusive special blessing jewelry.
    Event Locations1/F Children's creative centre front Square
    NoteWith special exhibition ticket stub (not limited to the day), you can make an appointment at the event site, free participation, limited to 40 people per game
    "Japanese bathrobe Experience" parent-child activities
    Date of Event106 Years January 21 (Saturday)
    Time of the venue14:00, 15:00, 40 minutes each
    Event ContentWelcome parent-Child participation, learn about the intelligence of Japanese dress tailoring, and experience the fun of dress up.
    Event Locations1/F Children's Creative Centre classroom
  • North Kitano: "Poor, not an excuse for your failure" gives you a glimpse of the inner world of Japanese movie Ghosts

    North Kitano and Hayao Miyazaki are Japan's quite heavyweight national treasures, but many people can't understand why North Kitano hates Hayao Miyazaki.At the Tokyo International Film Festival in 2014, North Kitano even publicly shelled Gongqi: "I hate animation and I hate Hayao Miyazaki, but his animations make a lot of money.""Apart from the different political positions that everyone guesses, Kitano is not really the one who hates Hayao Miyazaki, but a kind of beauty that Miyazaki is representing behind."Hayao Miyazaki is the standard rich second generation, as a child father sent him is the model of the plane, is the sky, in his works to see are all the beauty of the world.And North Kitano, he was only poor and this hideous world when he was a child. North Kitano (きたのたけし/takeshi kitano;1947 January 18-), it's hard to define him, he's a funny entertainer and a serious writer.He didn't graduate from college but he was a university professor.He was a taxi driver but a world-renowned big director. "Kitano, you did a good job, without you, the Japanese film will be chaotic in the future."I hope you will bear in mind my trust and continue the tradition of Japanese cinema."Kurosawa."Known as "Shakespeare in the film industry," Kurosawa, a special book to him before his death, let him inherit his mantle, which may be the highest praise for him. He is the ghost of the North Kitano. [Caption Id= "attachment_5374" align= "AlignCenter" width= "427"] North Kitano Takeshi Kitano[/caption] North Kitano is one of theTakeshi Kitano Portrait BW 20181013 most talented contemporary directors in Japan, with the film " The sky of the bad children, "the summer of the Chrysanthemum" is well known to the world.But at the same time, he was a child from the ghetto.He was the son of a painter and, in his words, "a class despised by society in Japan." January 18, 1947, North Kitano was born in the Tokyo lower-Cho Adachi district, a gathering place for the poor, living with workers, artisans and carpenters.The streets are narrow and closed, overflowing with cheap alcohol and the smell of the tramp's urine, the smell of smoked fish for a long time, with the sound of the couple's noisy fight, North Kitano's father North Wild Chrysanthemum Jiro, is a painter.Every day, my father, dressed in shabby, shabby clothes, with dirty, sticky paint cans, left home and began a tired and boring day.I do not know whether exhaustion makes father taciturn, or boring make him uninteresting, in the eyes of the North Kitano, Father taciturn, introverted apathy, implied a cold rough, let him dare not approach. He went to a famous university on his own, in order not to reach out to the family to get money, dropped out of the bar as a waiter, and later worked as a taxi driver, or simply scattered the work. Until a chance, he went from a wage earner to a crosstalk actor, to a variety show host, non-science background, but finally mistakenly became a film director, did not expect to create a miracle of life, repeatedly won the Venice Film Festival, the Canton Film Festival Best Director award, is regarded as the only hope of Japanese film. Ang Lee reviews North Kitano: "As long as he's next to a stop, he can be compiled into a story.""BasiTakeshi Kitano Movie stills Brothercally, if I hadn't experienced such a bitter life, maybe I would have turned into someone else … But life can't be a comeback.There is no way we can escape our childhood.I can't forget some very hard clips from my young years.I can't forget the condescending vision of the rich when they look at our insignificant little people."In 1983, the 36-year-old North Kitano, Japan's premier crosstalk actor, is an active television star on television.In everyone's eyes, he is a witty and humorous red man.But Japan's national treasure director, Oshima, said he saw a "hard-hearted Man" hidden in the body of North Kitano. So he was invited to star in "Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence," a sergeant with a rude, erratic temperament who would be melancholy to drink a little wine.This serious film, rough character, like a switch, opened the northern Kitano legendary film career, but also opened the North Kitano himself unexpectedly the other side, cold and rough, gloomy and violent. Takeshi Kitano Movie Portrait Sonatine with Gun Next, self-guided debut "Violent Man", Venice Film Festival Golden Lion award winning works "Flower Fire", Venice Film Festival Best Director Award "Tau City", a film full of violence, a silent and rough role, become the North Kitano style of violent aesthetics.Silent people, often affectionate as the sea.It is a pity that he cannot express it. After the death of his father, North Kitano in the collation of relics, actually found two or three of Father practice word paper, above Crooked wrote his name, North Wild Chrysanthemum Jiro.Father can't write his name until he dies, but he has been practicing secretly.However, before his death, my father clearly yelled at the North Kitano: can write and fart, paint and do not have to write! It was these pieces of paper that made North Kitano cry.Crying was more heartbreaking than when his father died. "I remember playing with him only once, and he was the one who took me to see the sea on the beach of Enoshima.""That is the only memory, is the North Kitano with him, should be said to be happy, really shared a moment bar."As a result, the sea is often seen in the films of North Kitano. In the 1999, North Kitano self-made self-directed the film "The Summer of Chrysanthemum", directly using the father's name, which is like a love letter to his father.The actor Chrysanthemum Jiro idle boring, no God sitting, like a father. The autobiographical film, hailed as the most warm and sunny film in North Kitano, nominated the Best picture of Golden Palm at the Canton Film Festival that year.In this way, the father of Kitano Warrior stayed in a sad and warm lens remnant. With the growing popularity of North Kitano, mother Sagi openly demanded 200,000 yen of pocket money per month from Kitano, and North Kitano scolded her mother for being a vampire.He was disappointed with his greedy mother, his home, his complaints, his anger and even his disappointment. But it was like the end of the movie in North Kitano, and the end came a little suddenly.After her mother's death, two remains were left to North Kitano: a letter and a passbook.The letter read: "My son, you have been debauchery since childhood, I fear you have nothing in the future … There are 10 million yuan in the passbook."And the Passbook is a deposit of up to 10 million yuan."The original mother asked him for every sum of money, she did not spend a point, all saved up.Because, she loves North Kitano more than anyone else, worried that his day's popularity will not become nothing. No one knows the pain of life more than a poor woman and mother, and behind greed is sad love. On the day of her mother's funeral, North Kitano said he wanted to tell jokes.Sad to tell jokes, formal occasions wear headgear, this is the desire of the surging heart and the silent shyness of the character between the product, like his facial paralysis of the face, half of the chilling, half of the smile naïve. But, really to the funeral, before he began to tell jokes, he could not help, broke down in tears, a few years later, he said: "When we think parents turned out so not easy, we are really mature.""We inTakeshi Kitano and Mother Smile life, perhaps not like the North Kitano, have such a poor and miserable childhood, but the vast majority of people come from a very general background, but this does not become an excuse for us to get happiness and the ideal of life." As North Kitano says, having talent is the most important and only thing a person can make himself really stand up in this world. Takeshi Kitano Young man Portrait A man who has truly seen the world, because he has seen the mountains outside the mountains, the people on the people, but will feel their own small, thus forming a kind of humility and reverence. When you understand impermanence, you don't advertise.Today's gorgeous scenery, tomorrow may be a mess. When you understand impermanence, you will not grieve.Today, the gloom is bleak, tomorrow may be full of sunshine. When you understand impermanence, get, what to like.Loss, what injury, gains and losses in the constant conversion. When you understand impermanence, everything feels normal. Discover more of North Kitano's "North Kitano: a 10 recommended good book written by Ghosts of world-class films detached from Japan."