9 Culture Take A Walk In Yanesen Tokyo Joe Peters The Yanesen area of Tokyo, Taito-Ku & Bunkyo-ku not far from Ueno is a wonderful area for a day's outing with family or frien...
10 Culture Tsukiji Honganji Temple Manish Prabhune Next to the Tsukuji Fish Market, walking towards Ginza, there is a temple which I had seen many times, but had not gone insid...
11 Culture Metropolitan Police Museum John Carter The Metropolitan Police Museum gives an insight in the forces history from the modernisation of Japan in the Meji period (186...
13 Culture Spotting Foxes at Toyokawa Inari Temple Larry Knipfing Toyokawa Inari is a temple that is both colorful and fascinating and easy to visit. Just a 5-minute walk from Akasaka-Mitsuke...
Culture Ueno: Tokyo Bunka Kaikan Takako Sakamoto Tokyo Bunka Kaikan is Japan's oldest 'Palace' of music and ballet. In 1961, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government constructed it ...
Culture Ezoshi Art Shop and Gallery Gion Bonson Lam This gallery brings together the best of Japanese woodprint art from various periods at prices that are hard to beat elsewher...
Culture Kowakamai Dance in Miyama 2025 Mandy Bartok Kowakamai, a 700 year old dance style, is still performed every year on Janaury 20th in southern Fukuoka prefecture.
Culture Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum Anonymous The Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum is a beautiful establishment located on the Waseda University Campus. It is a free muse...
10 Culture Iwami Ginzan's Omori-cho Sandra Isaka The town of Omori is one of Japan's least known treasures. Hidden in Shimane Prefecture and rarely visited, it is now part of...
Culture Dressing Up for Nebuta Matsuri Helen Langford It's all about the bells for the author at the Nebuta Matsuri, held in Aomori the first week of August. It's said that they b...