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07/21, Arts Culture Tourism from Tokyo (Yasukuni Shrine)

The Japanese government estimates the visitors between January and June exceeded10 million, 21-times the number from the year before. This rebound sawinternational travelers return to Haneda Airport's Terminal 2 on Wednesday,following its three-year closure due to the pandemic. Meanwhile, Japan'sprestigious Akutagawa Prize for Literature has been awarded for the very firsttime to a disabled author with Saou Ichikawa picking up the top prize. Acrosstown and one of the largest festivals of the year took place at Yasukuni Jinja(Shrine) opposite Kitanomaru Koen, a national park also home to many of museums.Yasukuni and park are a short walk from the Imperial Palace which also descendsinto darkness as night falls while an exhibition by the New York based artistTyler Cobern across town at Fig. in Otsuka centers around ideas of actual andspiritual darkness. Notebook visits Yasukuni late one afternoon and listens tothe sound of summer and the few people there soaking up the sun.—Substack: notebookpodcast.substack.comInstagram: @notebook_podTwitter: @notebook_pod—Get in touch: notebook.podcast@gmail.comLeave a message: speakpipe.com/notebook—

NOTEBOOK — Arts Culture Tourism from Tokyo