Hello and welcome to my new landing page and blog! My name is Claudia, but in the online world, I am better known as Yoko. I am already a blogger for many years, but I now decided to make a new start and this is what “Kura in Japan” is about. In Japanese, Claudia is written as Kuraudia (クラウディア) and so the short version is Kura.
I am originally from Germany and lived there all my life before moving to Japan. As a teenager, I got in contact with anime and manga, which led to an interest in Japanese music and with this Japanese language – and then in Japan as country itself with all the beautiful places, the new cultural aspects and more.
After traveling to Japan twice, I decided to do a Working Holiday year in 2013/14 which made my desire to live in Japan even bigger. In 2016 I married my Japanese husband and moved to Japan. We are living in the Western part of Tokyo and from there I am trying to explore the country more and more. I often visit Japanese castles and shrines and love to see beautiful nature. For sure, I also want to visit all the 47 prefectures at least once, being at 46 of 47 right now.
Even though I started with anime & manga, I am not so interested in this anymore. For sure, I am still into the series I watched in my teenage years, but I don’t know much about the current things. I still love to visit pop-up cafes of my favorite animes though.
In this blog, I want to share more about my traveling experiences in Japan, but also give you information about Japanese culture. I want to share events, cafes & restaurants, hotels and other special places with you, same as some stuff out of my daily life in Japan.
So I hope you will enjoy my content here! ♡
Get to see more from me on my other channels:
☆ Instagram (Main Account)
☆ Instagram – Japan Food Diary
☆ Instagram – Just Being Yoko
☆ Youtube Channel