12 Culture Kamakura's Myohon-ji Temple Larry Knipfing One reason Myohon-ji Temple is so lovely is its isolation. Way up a slope, surrounded by forest. Which is amazing considering...
9 Culture Yokohama's Beautiful Lotus Pond Larry Knipfing Visit the beautiful lotus ponds at Yokohama's Sankei-en Garden in mid-summer. Early mornings are best when all is serene and ...
9 Culture Tamamo Park, Takamatsu Peter Sidell In Takamatsu in Kagawa prefecture on Japan's Shikoku island, Tamamo Park is a pleasant park, home to the ruins of Takamatsu C...
Culture Asakusa’s Traditional Hagoita Fair Tomoko Kamishima Asakusa is famous for its annual year-end Hagoita (Battledore) Fair held December 17-19. It started in the late 16th century ...
Culture Tamagawa Museum of Modern Art Anonymous The Tamagawa Museum of Modern Art is located in a bucolic valley between the city of Imabari and lake Tamagawa on the road to...
Culture Riding the Seto Inland Sea Currents Anonymous The Seto Inland Sea appears calm from a distance, but if you go offshore in a boat, you experience its extreme side. The brid...
Culture Bokushi Street in Shiozawa Manish Prabhune If you want to time travel to the Edo period and experience its architectural beauty, Shiozawa in Niigata should be on your r...
Culture Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum, Kagawa Peter Sidell Near Takamatsu in Japan's Kagawa prefecture, award-winning Japanese-American sculptor Isamu Noguchi`s studio is now a museum ...
Area Arashiyama Alena Eckelmann Along a river in the West of Kyoto lies Arashiyama, a rural suburb of Kyoto. Literally “Storm Mountain”, Arashiyama is actual...
Culture Vanilla Gallery Akane Margarita Ichikawa Ginza's tiny Vanilla Gallery displays risqué and eccentric artwork that is often a mix of erotic and grotesque concepts (ero-...
