Prehistory

In 2019 we, my wife Julia and I, traveled to Nippon with a tour group of Aikidokas from Bonn.

We saw many cities, temples, shrines, gardens, a beautiful hike along Lake Ashi (with Komorebi), typical food (sushi and okonomiyaki) and many, many deep impressions.

Since Aikido brought the travel group together, there were of course some training times on our schedule:

Immediately after arriving at Daiyu Takeda at the Aikido Kenkyu-kai International in Yokohama. With Hiroshi Hatayama in Sayama, in the Honbu Dojo of the Aikikai in Tokyo with Doshu Mitsutera Ueshiba and Miyamoto. In Kamakura at the Hachimangu Shrine with Daiyu Takeda and in the Kyoto Aikido dojo with Yoko Okamoto.

The journey went from Tokyo via Kamakura - Hakone - Koyasan - Nara to Kyoto. The return flight was from Osaka to Cologne/Bonn.

We were very impressed with Japan and we want to travel there again.