Mailbox from Japan

This card was printed by Japanese company PostaCollect. They sell a variety of unusually-shaped cards, showing old-fashioned mailboxes or significant symbols of Japanese prefectures. I wish I had more of PostaCollect cards!

I also love Japanese stamps:

Tea ceremony

Cha-no-yu - a traditional culture of Japan since 16C., Cha-no-yu tea ceremony is more and more growing popular not only in the domestic, but Europeans and Americans.

(c) Japanglish from the postcard;)

Kakigori, a Japanese dessert

This is a typical Japanese summer dessert called kakigōri, made from shaved ice flavored with green tea syrup and topped with sugar beans and condensed milk.

Poppies from Japan

Let's have sushi!

I love how colour-coordinated this card is. The sender's writing matches the main colour of the card, the stamp matches the text printed on the back side. It all looks very thought through and it makes me all warm and fuzzy inside.

Yakitori

Yakitori is one of the most popular and well-known Japanese food. It consits of various parts of the chicken grilled on bamboo skewers over charcoal. It is flavored during cooking either with a soy-based sauce or with salt alone.

This card always makes me warm inside. It's nice and yummy and I also know from it that typical beer appetizers in Japan (beside said yakitori) are boiled green beans.

Tokyo

A beautiful sunset-view of Tokyo with Tokyo Tower


Japanese stamps: