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Hello everyone!
Well I have to write something about that, I mean the 30th Tohoku University International Festival (even the name is complicated).
Every year Tohoku University’s group TUFSA organizes an international festival in where people from all around the world cook traditional food and even perform on stage. For several years the Italian food stall was missing, and it was not acceptable.
So a group of Italians and me decide to solve the problem and set up the Italian booth this year, and in my opinion it’s been a success.

Continue reading “Mamma mia! Italy’s back!” →

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Well as you’ve read during golden week I had quite a busy time: samurai show, temples visiting, parties, whiskey tasting…so after all that work some relax was definitely needed! Continue reading “A relaxing Onsen experience” →

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“Join the dark side, we have free whiskey!” would be the Darth Vader’s spot if he was in Japan.
On the last day of the golden week (may the 6th) some friends took me to the Nikka Whisky distillery near Sendai. Some of you may already have heard about this Japanese brand, which is pretty famous also outside of Japan. Continue reading “Join the dark side, we have free whiskey!” →

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I already wrote about Matsushima bay, and I wrote something about a very antique temple in there, so here we are with a new photo-gallery of the temple itself. Continue reading “Land of Zen: Zuigan-ji Temple (Photo-gallery)” →

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On the 5th of May I’ve been visiting one of the most beautiful bay in Japan, in fact it’s said to be one of the three view of Japan.
Matsushima is a bay close to Sendai (30 minutes by train) and it’s very popular for three things: the view, the Zuiganji temple and the oysters; of course I got all three…

Continue reading “Matsushima: bay of sculptures (photo-gallery)” →

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Before coming here lots of people told me “Oh, you are going to turn 24 while in Japan, no party for you!”. Well I don’t use to party for my birthday anymore so it was not a problem, anyway spending a special day with friends is always nice.
So on Friday I was going to join another Italian, Davide Bitti, for his moving party since he just moved to a different (and bigger) apartment here in Sendai. What I was not expecting was that all my friends in there organized a double party: moving + birthday. Continue reading “A surprise birthday party” →

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That is definitely not a piece of news, but I felt like i have to write something about it, even one month later.
So here I am, writing about a shrine I visited on the 11th of April, in a cloudy day but just when trees were blooming.

Continue reading “One month later: Osaki Hachimangu shrine” →

Well I’m not talking about the movie of course, but about a historical reconstruction in Yonezawa called Uesugi Festival I went to on Sunday.
The Uesugi festival is a three days long festival held in the Yamagata prefecture, that ends with the historical reconstruction of one of the most important battles of Japan: the Kawanakajima battle (1561).

Continue reading “The last samurai (show)” →

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Hello everyone!
Let me briefly share what I did today, April the 29th, with a group of nice people from around the world.
Well, the 29th of April is holiday here so I did not have to work today (by the way, update on my project will come in next days). One of my lab mates invited me to join a group of international people who were going to a national park out of Sendai, of course I said “yes” and there I went. Continue reading “A missed bus and a flowery day” →