10 Food Eat Street at Omoide Yokocho Jeremy Yap Omoide Yokocho or Memory Lane is located off the main street of Shinjuku. Here, you can decide on a selection of Japanese foo...
8 Accommodation Searching for Ryoma at Teradaya Inn Takako Sakamoto This is the place where Ryoma Sakamoto was attacked by authorities. His wife Oryo saved him by running naked from the bath to...
Food Café Notch Tristan Scholze Café Notch brings together home cooking and healthy local products in a beautiful log cabin set in a mountainside village.
Activities Whitewater Thrills, Shikoku Style David Cooper For a day of outdoors adventures, whitewater rafting and canyoning are a great option in Kochi. Refresh from your travels by ...
11 Activities Kumano Kodo: Hosshinmon-Fushiogami Virginia Gonzalez Kumano Kodo is the only pilgrimage route, along with Spain's Camino de Santiago, that is as a World Heritage Site. It extends...
Nightlife Tejikara Fire Festival 2027 Michelle Ishiki A must see festival if you're coming to Gifu in April. Dating back to the 18th century, the Tejikara Fire Festival at Tejikar...
Culture Kameoka Mitsuhide Festival 2026 Kim Bergström Held annually in Kameoka City, Kyoto Prefecture, the Kameoka Mitsuhide Festival is a long-running historical event that bring...
Activities Sakura Bloom at Patina Osaka Kim Bergström A new spring experience is coming to Patina Osaka as the hotel marks its first cherry blossom season with a special promotion...
Culture Samurai Gardens of Kitabatake Chris Glenn It’s hard to believe that the beautiful 14th Century Kitabatake Gardens, one of Japan’s three major samurai gardens, was the ...
Activities Baseball: Yomiuri Giants Edition Hannah Morse Baseball in Japan can't get any more exciting than a Giants game at the Tokyo Dome.
