16 Culture Sabae Echizen Lacquer Ware Town Larry Knipfing Japan is known worldwide for its beautiful traditional lacquer ware, and Sabae in Fukui prefecture is one of Japan's top lacq...
Activities Mount Yatsugatake Valerie Kor Pick fruits, ride a horse, have a picnic in the mountains, visit a farm, have a coffee at a vintage cafe, you can do all thes...
Activities La Terra SPA Valerie Kor Special spa therapy at RISONARE Yatsugatake in Yamanashi using ingredients from wine-making.
10 Food YY Grill in RISONARE Yatsugatake Valerie Kor YY grill, a restaurant serving delicious buffet-style meals and grill in RISONARE Yatsugatake using fresh produce from the Ya...
12 Culture Shinmei Jinja Shrine, Sabae Larry Knipfing Shinmei Jinja Shrine is situated directly across the street from the Shinmei-en Hotel where I stayed in October. I woke up ea...
10 Accommodation Sabae's Shinmei-en Hotel Larry Knipfing A nice local old-fashioned inn/hotel in the pretty rural town of Sabae in Fukui Prefecture.
8 Activities Naeba Fall Hiking C. Rio Taking advantage of the brief calm between the storms (typhoons), me and my faithful hiking buddy made another pilgrimage to ...
6 Culture Daisenya Japanese Ceramics Class John Carter Whether it's your first time or you are skilled in the art of ceramics the pottery workshop at Daisenya hotel is an absolute ...
Culture Fukui Toastmasters Club Takako Sakamoto If you are frustrated because you don't have places to speak English in Fukui, OR are desperately wanting to be understood in...
7 Activities Hiking from the top of Mount Naeba C. Rio This section of the Snow Country Trail summits Naeba-san and then follows the river down to the car park of the Neaba ski res...
