This year marks the fourth year for Otomachi, the music project in Kashiwa which features unsigned acts performing outdoors and at venues around Kashiwa. After their performance on the plaza in front of Kashiwa Station, Kutsche, an indie trio that does all original music, came over to my neighbourhood for Sunday night dinner at White Gyoza.
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Last year’s Tone River Jam in Abiko got typhooned on, but before the skies opened up, we got to hear some great music.
As always, the Tone River Jam on August 16th is free, hosted by local businesses. Last year, a shuttle bus from Tennodai Station took jam goers to the [...]
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There’s a Coco Ichiban on the west side of Kashiwa Station! I’m a perpetual East Side girl, and rarely venture to the right side of the tracks. Vancouver, Glasgow, Uwajima City, Kashiwa City, it doesn’t seem to matter which town I’m in, my personal feng shui always places me east of center. Mel the Roommie [...]
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In Japan, anything can happen. In Kashiwa, Rich from England, Bryan from Canada and Nathan from the US met in suburban Tokyo, land of concrete and blue hair, and naturally started an indie band, This Heart’s Rendition.
They do some serious guitar rock with deep mythic themes. They’ll be playing at Eggman in Shibuya tonight, Wednesday March 4th.
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柏の葉 Kashiwa no Ha is that big, beautiful spread-out new industry and academic park that you pass through on your way from Ueno to Tsukuba on the new Tsukuba Express line (which has this silly English website) and is home to satellite campuses for both Tokyo University and Chiba University. The area was planned with lifestyle [...]
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I’ve started guerilla gardening in the sideyard, putting in a few fall-flowering bulbs and herbs. The soil on the back slope looks good enough to grow vegetables in. All that space behind the building is untended, and in a country where arable land is expensive, I find it so wasteful to not work this patch.
Kashiwa [...]
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