Satu lagi tempat wajib di Jepang yang harus dikunjungi oleh fans Snoopy, yaitu Snoopy Museum Tokyo. Sesuai namanya, museum yang baru dibuka April 2016 ini berisi sejarah dan barang-barang dari komik strip buatan Charles M. Schulz.
Hiroshima, 6 Agustus 1945 – ….
Agustus menjadi bulan bersejarah bagi Indonesia dan juga Jepang. Kedua negara ini memang punya latar belakang yang bertautan. Di sekolah dulu pasti ada pelajaran yang membahas kejadian di Agustus 1945: pengeboman di Hiroshima dan Nagasaki, serta kemerdekaan Indonesia. Di sini kita bakal bahas lagi, tapi secara ringan dari sudut pandang traveler 😉
Tepat di hari ini 72 tahun lalu, Hiroshima luluh lantak oleh bom yang dijatuhkan oleh tentara Amerika pada akhir Perang Dunia II. Dampaknya tidak hanya kehancuran kota dan korban jiwa, karena bertahun-tahun kemudian efek radiasi bom nuklir itu masih ada. Tapi Jepang bangkit, dan Hiroshima menjadi salah satu tujuan wisata karena kisahnya.
Hiroshima Peace Memorial – UNESCO’s World Heritage
Filming Location: Ani ni Aisaresugite Komattemasu
Yay for another requested filming location post! This time is “Ani ni Aisaresugite Komattemasu” which aired in NTV on Spring this year. Katayose Ryota from GENERATION became the lead actor here, and as LDH fans of course we just have to cover the filming location for this dorama! The locations are scattered around on several places such as Tokyo, Yokohama, and Saitama. If you have plan to visit these locations, we suggest to focus on the one in Yokohama.
Ninomiya Jinja & Ninomiya-chou in Kobe
Happy birthday Ninomiya Kazunari! We know it’s late. But you’re the forever 17 liners, so it won’t matter, right? Here’s another special post to celebrate Nino month.
When you are in Kobe and you are a big fan of Ninomiya Kazunari, please do pay a visit to this area. It is totally unrelated to our Neen, but it is sure fun to find the place and take picture with his name written everywhere.
二宮神社 = Ninomiya Jinja
Johnny’s Trivia Around The World #2: Via Nino Bixio
Hello June! Hello Nino’s month!
Since Kazu’s birthday is approaching, we would like to have Nino-centric posts for this month’s edition. First, we have Johnny’s trivia just like a year ago. From its name, do you have any idea what it is and where it is located?
a street in Milan, it is.
Akomodasi: Tonagi Hostel & Cafe Fukuoka
Biasanya setiap kali jalan ke Jepang, kami selalu memilih hostel atau guesthouse yang punya kamar private room (dan ada TV di dalam kamar). Alasan utamanya tentu saja supaya bebas buka hijab dalam kamar. Lagipula biasanya harga untuk private room yang diisi berdua tidak jauh berbeda dengan harga satu bed di kamar dorm. Tapi pada saat kami ke Fukuoka awal tahun ini bertepatan dengan konser Arashi “Are You Happy?”, kami terpaksa menginap kamar dorm di satu-satunya tempat relatif murah yang masih tersedia. Hampir semua tempat (kecuali hotel bintang 5 pas kami ngecek di booking-com) sudah full booked diisi oleh fans Arashi yang datang dari segala penjuru Jepang (dan luar Jepang). Termasuk hostel tempat kami menginap, Tonagi Hostel & Cafe. Luar biasa memang fans Arashi!
Modernark Pharm Cafe Kobe
Back in 2015, we failed to taste Kobe Beef. So this year we were pretty determine to finally taste it since we add Kobe to our itinerary. However, once again our plan was halted when we realized the course menu of the restaurant that offer Halal Kobe Beef is too expensive for us (like 10.000 yen/pax for the cheapest set) *sigh*. Maybe next time….. We have to save enough money first to finally splurge on something expensive like that. This also become the reason why we don’t update our blog as scheduled, we are busy with our day job so we can buy Kobe Beef later, lol (sorry for the lame excuse…).
Anyway, Kobe has several restaurants that offer Halal/Muslim-friendly menu. Most of them are Indian/Turkish restaurant, but we didn’t feel like to eat it at that time. So in the end we chose Modernark Pharm Cafe, a vegetarian cafe which specialized in healthy/beauty(?) menu using all natural ingredient.
