Activities Animal Refuge Kansai John Carter Founded in 1990 by Elizabeth Oliver, ARK is the main organisation for the welfare of animals in Japan but it has taken some t...
Activities Caribbean & Latin American Festival Todd Wojnowski The Caribbean and Latin American Festival in Tokyo's Yoyogi Park features Russian, Korean, and Philippine cuisine, Indian bee...
Activities Hiking Mount Iwate Malcome Larcens Mount Iwate is 2,038 meters tall and can be accessed from 6 different trails. I have always hiked it from the East side via a...
Activities Kyoto Koetsu-ji Temple Tomoko Kamishima Devotees of Japanese traditional tea ceremony are almost always persons of refined taste. Koetsu-ji Temple and its seven teah...
Activities Jiyu Gakuen Myonichikan, Ikebukuro Allan Murphy Myonichikan at Jiyu Gakuen (The school of the free spirit) was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1921 and it is one of his on...
Activities 33 Kannon Temple Pilgrimage Sendai Justin Velgus 33 Daikannon Temples were built by the fourth generation leader of the Date clan in Sendai. Although the pilgrimage route is ...
Activities Living in Sapporo Ben Cheng What it's like to live and work in Sapporo, Japan, from an ex-pat's perspective.
Activities Mother Farm Mother Farm (マザー牧場, Mother Bokujō) is more than just a farm, it's a vast piece of land housing a large variety of animal...