Culture Echigo Yuzawa Station Sake Festival 2019 Kim The Echigo Yuzawa Station Sake Festival allows visitors to sample 10 different local brews for 1000 yen. The region's sake is...
15 Culture Matsu, Take and Ume Elena Lisina The combination of pine, bamboo and plum blossoms in Japan symbolizes courage, virtue, strength, fortitude, eternal youth and...
Culture A Guide to Sake in Niigata City Niaya Harper Niigata Prefecture is home to some 90 sake breweries and is famous for producing some of the country’s top quality sake. In N...
Culture Wake-jinja and Inukai Falls Guillaume Doré Not too far from Myoken onsen, you can find a shrine that Sakamoto Ryoma and his wife Oryo visited during their honeymoon, as...
10 Culture Sunset Over Lake Shinji Avery Choi The sublime sunset at Lake Shinji in Matsue, Shimane, is a masterpiece of the nature. The locals call it the "Colours of Shim...
13 Culture Kakegawa Take-no-Maru Peter Sidell In the castle town of Kakegawa in Japan's Shizuoka prefecture, the Take-no-Maru is a beautiful, traditional old residence, wi...
Culture Lake Yamanaka Fireworks Festival 2024 Cathy Cawood Four simultaneous firework displays lasting one hour at the Firework Festival at Lake Yamanaka, one of the Five Fuji Lakes in...
Culture Mamada no Jagamaita Snake Festival 2024 Sander van Werkhoven Every year on the 5th of May, Mamada no Jagamaita, a rather unique matsuri involving huge 'snakes', is held in Mamada, Tochig...
8 Culture Lake Onuma and Akagi Shrine Cathy Cawood Red Akagi Shrine stands on the shores of Lake Onuma surrounded by beautiful Gunma scenery.
Culture Make Soba Noodles From Scratch Sarah Chaney While the area of Ouchijuku in Fukushima Prefecture is well-known as a traditional post town from the Edo period and its Negi...
