Japan - My Postcards Story https://theworldthroughpostcards.com Sat, 02 Oct 2021 19:34:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://theworldthroughpostcards.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/cropped-cropped-postcards-04-32x32.png Japan - My Postcards Story https://theworldthroughpostcards.com 32 32 195191119 Gunkanjima https://theworldthroughpostcards.com/gunkanjima/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=gunkanjima https://theworldthroughpostcards.com/gunkanjima/#respond Tue, 17 Nov 2020 11:33:00 +0000 http://theworldthroughpostcards.com/?p=2148 The abandoned island. A large Rock in the sea with derelict buildings on it. A coal mining ghost town in the middle of the East China Sea. The 480 meter long, 150 meter wide island, used to be home to 5000 residents. Now is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, known as Gunkanjima or Battleship island, […]

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]]> https://theworldthroughpostcards.com/gunkanjima/feed/ 0 2148 Pagoda in Astragalus Fields https://theworldthroughpostcards.com/pagoda-in-astragalus-fields/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=pagoda-in-astragalus-fields https://theworldthroughpostcards.com/pagoda-in-astragalus-fields/#respond Tue, 25 Aug 2020 14:26:00 +0000 http://theworldthroughpostcards.com/?p=1768 This very very beautiful meadowy and flowerish postcard shows Kokubunji Temple in Okayama, or as Hiroshi wrote, Five storied pagoda and astragalus fields. Do you know what is pagoda? Or astragalus? Additional information –Pagoda – Well the temple on the photo is five storied pagoda. A pagoda is a tiered tower with multiple eaves common to China, […]

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]]> https://theworldthroughpostcards.com/pagoda-in-astragalus-fields/feed/ 0 1768 Spring in Kamakura https://theworldthroughpostcards.com/spring-in-kamakura/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=spring-in-kamakura https://theworldthroughpostcards.com/spring-in-kamakura/#respond Wed, 05 Aug 2020 00:48:30 +0000 http://theworldthroughpostcards.com/?p=1549 I may say this a lot, but this postcard is one of my favorites too. It calms me somehow.Maybe because is from the temple in spring, the time of the year where everything is blooming and is starting again, where everything is very green. Or maybe because is a temple. Who knows.Also this Jufuku-ji temple, […]

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