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Mingen Chinese Izakaya offers a wide variety of drinks to accompany your Chinese dinner. Purchase the all-you-can-drink dinner course and enjoy delicious Chinese cuisine prepared by trained chefs.

〒541-0054 大阪府大阪市中央区南本町3-3-19 森一ビル2F

Location: Minamihonmachi 3-3-19 Chuo-ku, Osaka 541-004

Phone: 06-6241-9090

Time: Lunch Monday – Friday 11:30～14:00
Dinner 17:30～23:00(L.O.22:00)
Sunday 17:30～22:00(L.O.21:00)

Kyoto was the first place in Japan to grow tea. Needless to say, Kyoto is where the traditional Japanese tea ceremony was born and Uji is the most treasured location in Kyoto where tea is grown.

Most of the tea grown in Uji gets packaged and sold on a local basis by businesses around the Kyoto area. The only way this delicious, healthy green tea ever makes out of the Kansai region is when visitors, both foreign and Japanese, traveling to Kyoto purchase it as omiyage (a souvenir gift) to be given away or used on a personal basis.

Because of its ideal natural environment, Wazuka Town is one of the top Uji tea leaf production areas in Kyoto Prefecture. Located at the southern edge of Kyoto prefecture, Wazuka Town is nestled in an area of rolling, low hills. Fresh air, a cool climate and a large temperature difference between night and day are necessary for top quality tea and provide an idea location for visitors to sightsee and enjoy the delightful tea while experiencing the Japanese Tea Ceremony.

Ippodo, Fukujuen, Horaido, Matsuda Toukouen and Marukyu Koyamaen are some of Japan’s most famous tea retailers, and offer visitors a wide range of tea related products.

The next time you visit Kyoto, make sure you spend one day enjoying a tea ceremony or touring a tea plant and come away feeling refreshed fully immersed in Kyoto culture.

Osaka-Kobe

The Canadian Academy is a private day and boarding school which offers an educational program from prekindergarten to grade 12. The School is approved by the Japanese Ministry of Education, accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges and Council of International Schools, and certified to award both the U.S. high school and IB diplomas. The official language of instruction at the school is English. Curriculum is based on the North American standard and has been coordinated with the International Baccalaureate program. More than half of the graduates attend US colleges and universities.

Address:

4-1 Koyo-cho Naka
Higashinada-ku
658-0032 Kobe

Phone: 81-78-857-0100

Kawashima Wasabi Store

Kawashima Wasabi Store is just around the corner from Fushimi Inari Keihan Station; about a +/- three-minute walk depending on if you catch a red or green light at the first intersection and across the street from a major Fushimi Inari bus terminal where tourist buses drop off visitors from around Japan and the globe to tour Fushimi Inari Shrine.

The store owner’s wife speaks very good English and is a very friendly person to talk to.

Kawashima Wasabi Store
Telephone: 075-646-1064

Store Hours: 10am – 4pm

Academy Travel is located a few minutes walk from Juso Hankyu station in Osaka. If you would rather do everything over the phone, they have staff that speak English, Japanese and several other languages so you don’t have to worry about being understood.

Give them a call and they will take care of all your travel needs!

Visit their website for more details!

Academy Travel, Inc.

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The Original Kansai Classifieds started way back in March 2000 via KansaiConnect.com. Over the years, KansaiConnect has developed into more of an online community connecting sites for visitors and members to easily find Kansai Classifieds, other sites and area businesses, blogs and news revolving around the Kansai area of Japan and the cities of Osaka, Kyoto, Kobe, Nara, Shiga and Wakayama.

However, with the changes in the Internet, KansaiConnect has taken Kansai Classifieds in a new direction modifying it and updating the site in order to keep up with technology and provide better and faster service!

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The site has links to sites where people can purchase chocolates, gifts, send flowers, create gifts and learn ways to say, “I love you”.

Another good way to learn Japanese is by registering for a Japanese language course online. There are many good schools throughout the Internet and many charge a minimal fee.

One of the fastest ways to learn Japanese is by attending a language school in Japan. Students speak Japanese everyday they attend school lessons and in their dorms or host family homes. Many students become fluent within 6 months to a year.

To learn Japanese in the Osaka area of Japan, students can attend Kansai Gaidai in Hirakatashi, Osaka. It is a small college, but many foreigners attend language courses there for 6 months to a year or longer depending on the course they take. Most students who attend Kansai Gaidai are students who have applied from their universities abroad.

There are many other schools around the Kansai area and Japan.