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Japanese Food
Japanese food usually comes with staple food, usually rice with miso (soy bean paste) soup and main and some side dishes.
Main dishes can be made from cooked meat (beef, pork and chicken), fish (raw, grilled, boiled or deep fried) and vegetables (raw, steamed or deep fried).
Perhaps the most famous Japanese food is raw fish and sushi, which may be eaten in many countries, as Japanese food has become quite popular in many areas of the world.
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| Try a Japanese breakfast while in Japan. This is a traditional style breakfast in which is quite common today for many locals. A mix of breakfast styles
are available in Japan, Western, Asian, European mostly. |
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Various types of sushi, consisting of cooked rice and different kinds of raw fish. Some shushi comes with a creamy sauce and others plain. It is commong to
dip sushi in a kind of soya sauce.
Raw fish sliced (usually a certain type) and served by itself is sashimi.
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Japanese Music
Music in Japan ranges from traditional, symphony to modern rock and even holographic performing singers.
Here we see Japanese Music by Michio Miyagi - Yamato Ensemble.
Miyagi is one of the foremost Japanese composers, by reason of both quality and quantity of his output called the “Beethoven of the koto”.
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| The mid to late 1960’s was a time when the first Japanese Rock bands came out, influenced heavily by ‘The Beatles’ with a fusion of Japanese ‘pop music’. “The Spiders’ here are considered the pioneers of modern Japanese popular music.
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| Can you belief it? Holographic entertainment is here. Japanese holographic singer Hatsune Miku is perhaps a product of video game culture. |
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Clothing, Fashion
Kimonos, a more traditional style of clothing, used to be more common in everyday life. Today you may still see the occasional Kimono being worn on the street,
usually by service workers, such as certain restaurants or bars. Locals may wear a
Kimono at formal occasions, such as a wedding for example. |
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Streetwear, used general to describe clothing mostly from Hip-Hop styles, and can include military-fashion jackets, top-end brand name sneakers and printed t-shirts.
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| Decora, short for ‘decoration’, is a type of street wear involving an abundance of bright colors. It can include feather boas, plastic jewelry and multiple sock layers. |
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| Lolita fashion brings back the 19th century Victorian and Edwardian dress look,
creating a resemblance to a porcelain doll, including lace, bonnets and ribbons. |
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| Gyaru is usually casual clothing for mostly women in their early 20’s. This style can be made up of bright colors and sometimes lots of makeup and hair extensions.
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| Japanese couples wearing modern fashions. |
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| Japanese Bath House
The bath houses in Japan can be wonderful and a very relaxing experience. There are bath houses with many baths, hot and cold, steam rooms and hot dry heat (sauna) rooms, showers and also many smaller bath houses with one hot bath and one cold bath, etc. For some, especially Westerners, going to the bath house for the first time can be a bit difficult to get used to. Washing up and bathing nude with others is not so common in the West. Men and Women’s bath houses are numerous throughout Japan |
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| Buddhist Temple
Buddhist Temples are quite prevalent throughout Japan. Visiting a temple can be a very tranquil and peaceful experience. Some visitors may meet a local Monk, experience prayer and meditation or simply take in the surroundings. |
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