Transportation JR East Travel Service Center Jerome Lee The JR East Travel Service Center is located in Tokyo Station, where travelers can exchange their JR East pass order, exchang...
Culture Wisteria at Ashikaga Flower Park Manish Prabhune Ashikaga Flower Park, wisteria blossoms during the Golden Week holidays—a photo story.
Culture Mr and Mrs Kato's Green Tourism Jerome Lee The Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability (LOHAS) facility is in Echizen city where guests can book themselves into a tradi...
Activities Heading to Fuji Rock Festival Rufus Starbuck The Fuji Rock Festival is one of the best outdoor music festivals of summer in Japan. Amazing music in the mountains. This sh...
Nightlife Shibuya's Goodbeer Faucets Xia Fei Chiew Craft beer fanatics rejoice, Shibuya's Goodbeer Faucet has 40 types of cracft-beer, on tap, waiting for you.
Activities Togakushi's Lake Kagami-ike Robert Grey A little off the beaten path in Nagano City's Togakushi District is the breathtakingly beautiful Kagami-ike, an artificial re...
12 Culture Shirakawa-go at Golden Week Cathy Cawood The Japanese village of Shirakawa-go is a World Heritage Site with many thatched roof houses in a beautiful mountain setting.
15 Culture Ming Style Beauty in Manpuku-ji Tomoko Kamishima Ming Style Beauty in Manpuku-ji: The floors of the corridors, passageways, and insides of the halls are covered with diamond-...
Food The Best Soba in Togakushi Robert Grey It has been said that Togakushi is the birthplace of soba. So why not go with the best of them all: the centuries-old, family...
