Sightseeing of encountering cats

 

 

Dogs were more popular than cats in Japan.

However, there are more people having a cat than  a dog recently.

 

Not only the domestic cat but also the wild cat become popular.

There are  some sightseeing spots where cats becomes" excellent supporting actors" .

How is the trip intended to encounter cats?

 

 

Onomichi is the shooting place of many Japanese movies .

There are many  attractive historic buildings in the town.

Shinto shrines,  Buddhist temples are the highlight.

Many wild cats are in "The narrow path of the cats”.

The combination of stone stairway and cats is ideal to take the photograph.

 

Many wild cats also lives in Nagasaki.

There are many cats bending tail.

It is said that  bending tail cats  has happiness.

 

 

Gotokuji of Tokyo is famous as a temple of the beckoning cat.

The lucky charm of the beckoning cat is popular to travelers.

 

Japanese love beer garden

 

Japanese love beer garden(drinking  beer outdoors).

Dropping by a beer garden is the best way to spend a hot and humid Japanese summer evening.

 

Beer gardens are often opened at a rooftop of a department store or a building.

The first rooftop beer garden opened in Osaka in 1953, but it has been ommon to drink beer outside

since 1875.

It was around that time Japan’s first commercially successful brewery, called Spring Valley Brewery, opened.

 

Beer gardens continue to evolve.

They are now standing beer gardens and ones with seats for solitary drinkers.