Experience with postcrossing
Postcards from Japan sent by postcrossing.
A postcard arrived from Japan on November 2, 2021.The postcard shows a drawing of an observatory.It was a special postcard. There was a postcrossing contact, in the sense of exchanging ideas. I already presented Nao’s blog here.That’s what postcrossing is all about. You get to know people and exchange ideas.She wrote some very nice lines… Read more Postcard of a drawing of an observatory from Japan no 167
A look at a wonderful English blog from Nao (here Nao’s older entries before 2022) a fellow Postcrossing member from Japan. In the movie “Forrest Gump” the famous quote is: “Life is like a box of chocolates“Today I would like to change it to: “Postcrossing is like a box of chocolates”. It started at the… Read more Nao’s blog – a Postcrossing Connection
With a little delay, the postcard of the month for August 2021 is going to Japan.This shows the Imperial Palace in Tokyo, at least the moat with a beautiful bridge and two swans. The photographer had a keen eye in composing the picture.The shortlist was still the card from Sweden, Austria/Lichtenstein and Austria. Perhaps it… Read more Postcard of the month August 2021 is the Imperial Palace Tokyo
A postcard arrived from Japan on August 13th.This shows the moat to the Imperial Palace Chiyoda-Jo Castle Tokyo.The Japanese emperor lived there.The palace is located on an isolated island and for security reasons with only a few bridges to the mainland.The postcard is a candidate for Postcard of the Month. I like this very much.She… Read more Imperial Palace Castle Tokyo postcard from Japan no 143
A postcard arrived from Japan on July 21, 2021.It’s a Porco Rosso postcard (Studio Ghibli).He wrote some nice lines. He lives in central Japan. He also received a thank-you-return postcard from me.There are 3 very nice stamps on the postcard. 2 stamps show animals. Once a rabbit and a mother monkey with a baby. I… Read more Postcard with animal postage stamps from Japan no 133
On June 18th a postcard came from Japan. She wrote that she is from Yokohama. I can’t really classify the postcard. It is an illustration or drawing of several monkeys with a kind of queen in between. All around the queen. She wrote that she enjoyed traveling and collecting stamps. There are two nice stamps… Read more Postcard with volcano stamp from Japan – postcrossing no. 118
On April 20th a very nice postcard came from Japan. This shows the Byodo-in Temple Houo-do in Uji, Kyoto. The temple is a World Heritage Site.If you want to know more about it, here is the link to the Byodo-in Temple Houo-do in Uji, Kyoto websiteThe postcard is a candidate for April’s postcard of the… Read more Postcard of Byodo-in temple Houo-do in Uji from Japan no. 89
On April 14th a postcard came from Japan. The postcard shows a dog and is from the animal protection organization Peace Wanko Japan. She wrote that she has three cats as pets that the snow is starting to melt right now. There are 2 beautiful Japanese postage stamps on the postcard. A kind of heron… Read more Dog postcard from Japan no. 87
The most beautiful postcard of the month arrived on January 29, 2021. The postcard came from Tokyo, the capital of Japan.The postcard is just wonderful. The entire front is covered with postage stamps from Japan. Even if I’m not a stamp collector, she designed the card with so much effort that it became the postcard… Read more Postcard of the month Jan 2021 from Japan Tokyo no 45
On November 25th in 2020, the first postcard from Japan arrived. The postcard shows a picture of the Tojinbo coast at sunset. She lives in Tokyo. With six stamps on the postcard, all of them different, it was the record number up to then.The postcard traveled 9,379 kilometers (5,827 miles) in eighteen days.