Shopping Handa Dashi Festival Chris Glenn Japan’s greatest Dashi, or parade float festival, the Handa Dashi Festival happens every 5 years in Handa, just south of Nag...
Activities The Battle of Okehazama Chris Glenn 2,500 samurai trounced an army of 35,000 in what became known as the Battle of Okehazama. It was one of Oda Nobunaga’s finest...
Activities Mikawa Bushi and Ieyasu Museum Chris Glenn Proud, stoic, loyal strong. These are the attributes of the Mikawa Bushi, samurai of the Matsudaira clan of Mikawa who becam...
Culture Meijiza Theater Justin Dart A Meiji period theater nestled in the Japanese cyprus covered mountains of Kashimo that still hosts locally produced Kabuki
Myo-oji Temple Setsubun Ceremony 2027 Kim Bergström At the start of spring according to the traditional calendar, Myo-oji Temple in Kaga City hosts a Setsubun ceremony focused o...
11 Snow at Fukui's Izumo Shrine Takako Sakamoto The beautiful Japanese garden of Izumo Shrine's Fukui branch covered in snow with a small, small fox shrine in the corner.
17 Izumo Shrine's Fukui branch Takako Sakamoto The 900 kg sacred straw rope hanging from the eaves of Izumo Shrine's Fukui branch. Green and fresh, it is waiting for the vi...
11 The Shida Residence in Kanbara Sandra Isaka The former Shida Residence in Kanbara, Shizuoka, was once a merchant's home and trading house. It is now a museum full of ant...
Activities Shizuoka's Kanbara Post Town Sandra Isaka Walk a section of the historic Tokaido Highway in Shizuoka's Kanbara Post Town. Visit a couple of homes-turned-museums, and t...
