Area Uwajima Anonymous Uwajima is the southernmost city in Ehime. It’s a compact city, centered around a small castle on a hill. Above the city towe...
Shopping Ebisugawa Homeware Street Bonson Lam This is the street to go to for traditional Kyoto furniture and curios, from wooden screens to period items. Just a short str...
Shopping Quest to Find the Modern Day Tansu Bonson Lam The Miyazaki Emporium is a Kyoto Institution, century old makers of traditional and modern Japanese furniture, kimono chests ...
Shopping Kyoto Traditional Furniture Museum Bonson Lam See Craftsmen at work hand-making tansu (kimono chests) and discover how Japanese furniture looked up to 100 years ago.
Activities Ebino Ikemeguri Nature Trail Tristan Scholze Hike through mountainside forests and around volcanic crater lakes in Kirishima-Kinkowan National Park.
Activities Yuzen Nagashi Kimono Silk Dyeing Allan Murphy When I was in the middle of the bridge over Nakai station on the Seibu Shinjuku Line and the Miyoshoji River, I saw 4 or 5 me...
Culture Bando POW Camp Site, Tokushima Takako Sakamoto Can you imagine any POW camp being a paradise? I couldn't, until I learned about this Bando POW Camp in WWI, from 1917 to 192...
Activities Shinagawa Prince Hotel 'Complex' Sandra Isaka The Shinagawa Prince Hotel 'Complex' is made up of four hotels and a number of attractions. Here are the top 10 things to do ...
Culture The Story of Tojin Okichi Yoshiko Toyama On the Izu Peninsula down the coast from Tokyo, Shimoda is the setting of the tragic story of geisha Tojin Okichi and America...
Activities Tsurumine Park's Gorgeous Azaleas Reiko Senna The man who ordered the azalea showed three fingers to mean 300 bushes, but the gardener took it to mean three freight cars o...
