Odawara Welcomes the Wallabies and Rugby 7s Teams
The Wallabies and Australian Sevens teams will use Odawara, Japan as their training base for the next three years for their matches in the country. With key matches and tournaments to be played in Japan in 2018, 2019, and 2020, Rugby Australia issued an expression of interest to the Japanese market in late 2017 to establish an Australian Rugby training base in the country and Odawara was chosen for location, commitment, and quality of facilities. Odawara, which is located an hour south of Tokyo and Yokohama by car, or 35 minutes by bullet train. The region was selected due its superior facilities and accommodation options, coupled with a strong local […]
An Introduction to Odawara
Odawara is a regularly ignored entryway to nature and history. Sightseers searching for places or towns rich in Japanese conventional culture regularly settle on Hakone or Karuizawa, however why travel so far when this excellence is on Tokyo’s doorstep? Most celebrated for Odawara Castle, initially implicit the mid fifteenth century and held by the Hojo tribe, Odawara is a fortune trove for those intrigued by Japan’s tremendously discussed Warring States Era. It likewise happens to be Tokyo’s nearest stronghold and keep mix, a little more than a hour away via prepare. The château isn’t Odawara’s just distinguishing strength. It is additionally the main town inside the Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park, which […]
Odawara Art Museum
The New York Times writes about the Odawara Art Foundation…. WITHOUT WARNING, the Japanese artist Hiroshi Sugimoto begins to sing. Moments before, he had been guiding me through his minimalist penthouse loft in a verdant neighborhood of Tokyo, explaining in a voice barely louder than a whisper why white Japanese shikkui plaster is the most beautiful surface on which to view shadows. Then, in a soaring tenor, he starts belting out Handel’s “Lascia ch’io pianga,” his strong voice echoing off the bare walls. Spend any time with Sugimoto, and such scenes will grow familiar: It is all but impossible to know what he will do next. Sugimoto built his name […]