I am a long-term resident in Japan and live in Gunma prefecture. My interests include visiting art museums and galleries, painting and drawing, walking and history. I collect vintage Japanese knitting machines, and I sometimes write haiku in English.
JR Shimbashi station's SL Square is well known to viewers of Japanese television as a popular place for vox-pop interviews on all manner of news-worthy events. Not so well known is its history.
Washi no Sato is a paper making workshop and cultural heritage centre in Higashi Chichibu where you can see paper being made, participate in paper making yourself, enjoy local culture and heritage through architecture, arts and crafts as well as cuisine.
Located just over one hour from Tokyo in the large Tataranuma Park, the Gunma Museum of Art, Tatebayashi was opened in 2001 as a branch of the Museum of Modern Art, Gunma in Takasaki city. The focus of its collection is sculpture.
