summer - Noemi Noemi

21 août 2016

Visit to the Gajoen

Meguro Gajoen is a wonderful hotel with exquisite design, a museum inside, and a waterfall included. This summer, it's sparkling with festival lanterns and dragon lights. Summer touch

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Tags: art, japanese, colors, tokyo, museum, summer, Meguro, matsuri, tradition, festival, lights, gajoen

21 août 2016

Green and Red

Tokyo never stops being amazing. The New Otani Hotel Gardens, open to the public, are delightful in summer. Check it out! "Hibiki - Japanese Harmony", as they say

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Tags: japanese, colors, garden, tokyo, beauty, green, summer, red, nature, tradition, hotel, new otani

31 mai 2016

Okinawa Holidays

A girl needs holidays. Far far away from frantic Tokyo, the Southern islands of Okinawa are hiding beautiful beaches and crystal-clear waters. You need to look for them though, because many landscapes there are unfortunately ruined by highway bridges,...

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Tags: japon, holidays, sunset, okinawa, sea, summer, south, sky, nature, snorkeling, tropical

10 août 2015

Asagaya Omatsuri

August in Tokyo : wet, steaming hot, buzzing with insects, exhausting. Let's try to forget all this by hitting a matsuri : a Japanese local festival boasting bright colors, yukata, and - oh surprise - tons of food. There are firework matsuri, omikoshi...

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Tags: japon, colors, tokyo, summer, matsuri, festival, celebration, august, lantern, local life

8 août 2015

Hanabi 2015

It's not a surprise : in August, one should admire the Japanese fireworks. This year, I was invited to watch the "fire flowers" from Edogawabashi park, in Eastern Tokyo. After the Atami fireworks on the sea, and, the Nagano fireworks in the mountains,...

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Tags: japan, night, summer, matsuri, flowers, tokyo tower, fireworks, pretty pop, lights, beautiful, edogawabashi

27 juin 2015

Ici Londres

One week in London. It is funny because I had already visited the city three times, without making any clear memory of it. Propbably because it was before I got used to carry my camera everywhere, and it seems that taking pictures is the only way for...

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Tags: holidays, travel, europe, beauty, street, city, summer, blue, sunshine, london

6 août 2014

Summer holidays in Nagano

Nagano: for me, it will always be the Winter Olympics, an eternity ago, when I was a child. White snow storms on the TV screen; freezing French reporters lost in translation. But in summer, the area of Nagano looks as green as Ireland and smells like...

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Tags: ueda, japan, holidays, fun, friends, countryside, green, summer, nature, hanabi, relax, nagano, barbecue

17 septembre 2013

Late summer pleasures : Week-end at Shimoda

Mid-September : the deadline for a sea-bath in Honshu, the main island of Japan. There is still a chance to fly to Okinawa in autumn to get the final touch on your tan, but it's far away, and quite expensive. But the Tokyo sunflowers are lucky : 3 hours...

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Tags: japanese, holidays, friends, sea, summer, nature, sun, beach, izu, shimoda

29 août 2013

Charity cruise for Tohoku

Believe it or not, but so far I didn't have the chance to wear my yukata this year. What's the point to live in Japan if it's not to wear a beautiful yukata in summer ? Fortunately, IMA and AFJ proposed to raise money for Tohoku having fun on a big boat...

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Tags: tokyo, night, friends, summer, smile, yukata, cruise, boat, charity, lights, wave

14 août 2013

Vamos a la playa! Enoshima early morning

Beaches around Tokyo are not exactly great. Packed in summer, darkened by grey sands, visited by jelly fish and floating garbage... Not the common idea of paradise... But still, the beach always mean great fun. You just have to go by night with a bunch...

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Tags: sunrise, colors, friends, beauty, summer, enoshima, beach, sleepless