Culture Strolling the Tokyo Univ. Campus Yoshiko Toyama The Hongo campus of Japan’s most prestigious school, The University of Tokyo, is quite beautiful, as is the neighborhood surr...
Culture Kyoto Shoren-in Temple Tomoko Kamishima Kyoto Shoren-in Temple: Enjoy the three gardens stretching out of its horseshoe shaped corridors.
Transportation JR Obihiro Station Valerie Kor Obihiro JR station, the gateway to everything Obihiro has to offer: sweets, buta-don, banei.
Culture Odawara Wind Bells Shehzad Lokhandwalla Japanese wind bells are well- known for the sound that they produce. Unlike machine made copper bells, these bells are hand m...
Culture Takaoka Kojo Park in Winter Jonathan Perry How to spend half a day or more in Kojo Park, Takaoka
Food Ruth’s Chris Steak House Tokyo Jessica A Paje Hear the sizzle, smell the sizzle, see the sizzle. It's all about the succulent sizzling steaks at Ruth's Chris Steak House i...
Shopping IKEA Sendai Justin Velgus Steps away from the Nagamachi subway and JR stations is the Swedish self assembly furniture giant IKEA. Great for anyone look...
Culture Musee Nakamura Shinya, Kagoshima Peter Sidell In Kagoshima on Japan's Kyushu island, Musee Nakamura is a small museum dedicated to Japanese sculptor Nakamura Shinya, packe...
Culture Seishu Netsuke Art Museum Yuko Kobayashi Seishu Netsuke Art Museum is a little known museum in Kyoto where you can experience a sophisticated type of Japanese beauty.
Food Merry Maid Café in Matsuyama Anonymous Drop into Merry Maid Café in central Matsuyama for some innocent cosplay and coffee