Living & Working in Ishikawa, Japan
The city of Nanao is hosting another road race this summer – theHyokkori Notojima Road Race. Set to be held around none other than the beautiful Wakura Onsen, this promises to be just as scenic and rewarding a race as the Wakura Manyo-No-Sato Marathon in March this year. While it might seem a ridiculous idea [...]
The Ishikawa Prefecture Tourism League seems to be increasing its efforts to court foreign tourists via the creation of multilingual tourism websites: Hot-Ishikawa started producing an English-language quarterly tourism e-newsletter (see prior link), through which I found Gourmet Ishikawa, a new multilingual resource for dining in Ishikawa. The site may be viewed in Japanese, English, [...]
This guest post is by Megan Lam, ALT. Every year the Super Rindo toll road, which runs from Ishikawa to Gifu, is closed off one weekend so that the public can walk on the roads. It becomes a beautiful trail with a lot of picturesque stops along the way–streams, waterfalls, foot onsens, etc. The scenic [...]
It’s “another day, another omiyage” at the Japanese office. One thing I’ve noticed is that omiyage, and, obviously, food from street vendors rarely have the nutritional content listed. If you’ve ever wondered about the calories in taiyaki, yokan, or other Japanese foods, the website eiyoukeisan.com (「栄養計算」) has the answers.
This guest post is by Sophie, a CIR in Kanazawa. The annual Kanazawa Green Walk is coming up again!! Courses: this year for the first time there will be 4 walking courses: -A: Saigawa walking course, about 5km -B: Kanazawa’s 3 famous writers course: about 9km -C: Yuwaku Yuzu-no-Michi course: about 15km -And new this [...]
Living with no central heating in one of the rainiest prefectures in Japan has convinced me that wool (uuru, ウール; ke, 毛) is perhaps the most amazing fabric on earth. It keeps you warm even when it’s wet and dries quickly. If you’re like me and didn’t own a lot of woolens or wool blends [...]
Reposted from NAJET: For Ishikawa please visit: http://www.mapmyrun.com/routes/view/29984502 Been wondering what all the facebook statuses were about? Ready to find out what 5toSurvive is really about? 5toSurvive is an International walking/running event organised by Tom Cole, and English teacher in Ishikawa. Please see his message below to see how you can get involved, or even [...]
Although a lot of the blogging I do for the IJET blog is about how to live well in Ishikawa even if you don’t speak Japanese, as a bilingual, sometimes I forget the little linguistically aggravating details of living that really make or break JETs’ Japan experience. Luckily, there is a site precisely for this: [...]
Do you have an emergency kit ready? 72 Hours has an extensive general information on what do have and do in case of an earthquake or other disaster in English, Spanish, Chinese, Russian, and Vietnamese. Please also check the emergency information on your town website/guide or the translation of that information.) Some tips from me: [...]
You can save a lot of money and make your home healthier and more eco-friendly by switching to one inexpensive, easy-to-find product: baking soda and vinegar spray.
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