Culture Kazahaya Traditional Arts Festival Anonymous The Furusato Kazahaya Traditional Arts Festival features vernacular arts that you probably haven't heard of before, but they ...
Culture The Shade of Cedars Trail Nathaniel Green This is an excellent hike through some back country near Tokyo that includes that great Mitake mountain shrine. The shrine ha...
7 Culture Makomanai Takino Cemetery Michelle Ishiki What would a row of moai be doing in the back roads of Sapporo? Hanging out with Stonehenge of course. Makomanai Takino Cemet...
Activities Kasayama in Hagi-city Louise Waghorn Kasayama in Hagi, Yamaguchi is an active volcano that you can climb and even enter the crater. Nearby observatory offers beau...
Food Latte Takamatsu Ice Cream and Barn Aries Lucea A beautiful restaurant with splendid view, that lets you feast on high quality dairy products. It also gives you the opportun...
Activities Kisuge-daira: Day Lilies in Nikko Tomoko Kamishima Beautiful yellow day lilies cover the grass halfway up the mountain of Nikko's Ko-maruyama in early summer. They bloom from m...
Accommodation Lake Toya Matt Stormont A camping trip on the shores of stunning Lake Toya, site of the 2008 G8 Summit and one of Japan's natural treasures.
Culture Waterfall and Stalactite Cave Trail Nathaniel Green Waterfall and Stalactite Cave Trail: A Short, Hairy, Beautiful Trail with some Very Nice Waterfalls. Some parts of this trail...
9 Activities Ko-Maruyama Hiking Course in Nikko Tomoko Kamishima Mt. Ko-Maruyama is located within Nikko’s Kirifuri-kogen highlands. This course is very slippery year round. But the splendid...
