Saturday, April 12, 2014

Japan: Kawagoe

Today I got two postcards: one from Japan and my first card from Hungary.

The card from Japan comes from Kawagoe in the Saitama Prefecture. Kawagoe is about 30min train ride from Tokyo and is also known as Little Edo. The tower in the background is the Bell of Time. The Bell of Time was originally built between 1624 and 1644 by the order of Sakai Tadakatsu but had to be rebuilt in 1894 after it was destroyed by the Great Fire of Kawagoe.


With nice stamps:
Hello Kitty (two from set of fifteen) (issued 22-06-2012)
Hello Kitty appeared for the first time in 1974 and was designed by Yuko Shimizu. Hello Kitty represents a female white Japanese bobtail cat. She is merchandised by Sanrio.
with special postmark showing among others a fox


Thank You very much "dekoPon"!

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