Food Matsusaka Beef Chris Glenn Matsusaka Beef is raised from specially pampered, "Japanese Black" virgin heifers or Kuro Wagyu cows. Only about 25,000 anima...
Activities Nagoya's TV Tower Chris Glenn Nagoya's TV Tower was built four years before Tokyo Tower, making it Japan’s first and oldest remaining free-standing steel t...
Beauty & Spa Kurhaus Imabari Anonymous For visitors who fancy a swim and onsen in the company of Ehime’s friendly senior citizens, there’s no better venue than Kurh...
Culture The Mummy of Dainichibo Temple Alena Eckelmann The Dewa Sanzan area is a mystical land of mountain ascentics and of "living Buddhas"- monks who mummified themselves in orde...
Transportation Higashiyama Subway Chris Glenn Of Nagoya’s 4 subway lines, the Higashiyama Line is the city’s oldest, having opened in November of 1957 and connecting 20.6 ...
Transportation Go loopy in Nagoya! Chris Glenn Japan’s first, and only true loop line subway system with a distance of 26.4 kilometers is the Nagoya Municipal Subway Meijo ...
Shopping Michi No Eki Kashimo Justin Dart Tomato Ice Cream! Braken cakes! Local food and local at home feeling makes Michi No Eki Kashimo the place to stop for local c...
Culture Ozu Castle - An Authentic Reconstruction Anonymous Ozu castle stands on a hillock that extends into a bend in the river Hiji, creating the impression that the castle stands on ...
Area Tobe Anonymous To most Japanese people, Tobe (砥部) calls to mind Tobe-yaki, a type of ceramic known throughout Japan. People tend to imagin...
