Kazuhiko Ota takes a daytime stroll through the good old townscapes and old temples in the countryside.

At night, he visits carefully selected "quality izakayas" that are rooted in the local area to show you the owner's special dishes and fine sake!

We also introduce the Ota way of sake drinking and give you the lowdown on cups and utensils.

Walking through the curtain of an izakaya at dusk and slowly enjoying a selection of sake and snacks...

A few words with the owner or the hostess. The restaurant you enter on a whim becomes the most memorable part of your trip.

The restaurant makes you think: "Ah... I want to go to such an izakaya"

This program presents Kyoto with its history of 1,200 years, numerous precious cultural assets such as World Heritage Sites, national treasures, and important cultural properties.

The story revolves around Nekoyama Suzu, a timid, shy tsundere girl loves dogs, and Inugami Yachiyo, a super masochistic, air-headed, friendly girl who loves cats. One day, after a fateful meeting, the two find themselves attracted to each other. In response to Inugami's instinctive approaches, Nekoyama is always bashful. Their friend Aki has to work hard to make jabs at some of the situations of the two, and also to stop Inugami from going berserk.

An original anime to advertise Urawa City in Saitama, Japan.

A shy baker tries to reach out to his pretty cake-loving customer.

Funny Pets is a digital computer anime series created and directed by Ryuji Masuda that was made in 2006.

The sound effects were made by Shizuo Kurahashi. The plot of the series is that a UFO carrying two aliens from another planet ends up falling into Earth, where they are saved by a moody air-headed showgirl called Funny. The two aliens, the moon-like Crescent and the sun-like Corona, must adjust to life as Funny's pets. There are twelve episodes in the series.

Chitose-chan is a penguin who lives in Kyoto. Getting in touch with people and getting fed delicious food as she curiously walks around Kyoto streets is her favourite thing to do. The story features popular places in Kyoto like Kiyomizu Temple, Ginkaku Temple, and Gion from the Penguin's point of view. This is a short story about a penguin that is nostalgic and warm, curing and relieving the heart.

Honda is a skeleton, but more importantly, he is a bookseller. And he'll tell you from firsthand experience that the job of a bookstore employee is more challenging than it may seem to the average customer.

Alongside his equally eccentric coworkers, Honda constantly deals with the stressful requirements of the bookselling industry. From the drama of receiving new titles without their bonus material to the struggle of providing quality service to customers who speak a different language, the work of a skeleton bookseller never ends.

Nevertheless, despite the hardships he faces, Honda thoroughly enjoys his job and strives to bring the best book selections and service to his customers.

Set at the all-boys school Rokuto Academy, the story revolves around Hasukawa Kazuya a late arrival to the unusual Greenwood Dormitory, a former insane asylum.

The story follows a group of high school girls who are in the 'Going-Home Club'. Instead of doing regular club activities, the 'Going-Home Club' is dedicated to having as much fun as possible, by doing such things as playing video games or even simply feeding pigeons in the park.