Accommodation Toyoko Inn Otsuka Kita-guchi Bonson Lam See the quieter side of Tokyo from this practical hotel close to the Airport Express trains and Tokyo Loop Line
Food Kamakura Sausage Larry Knipfing After a morning of walking around Kamakura, you might find yourself famished. For 350 yen and five minutes of your time, Kama...
Accommodation Enoshima's Iwamoto-ro Inn Tomoko Kamishima Enoshima's Iwamoto-ro is a Japanese ryokan inn situated on the right side of the main street, facing west. All of the rooms f...
Culture Yokohama’s Narita-san Temple Larry Knipfing If you are in the Minato Mirai area and would like to see something a little more ‘Japanese traditional’, then take a stroll ...
Activities Edo Tokyo Open Air Architectural Emily Ikegami Stroll through this open air museum to imagine what life was like in Japan long before highrises and neon took over
Food Kamakura’s Utsuki Robatayaki Larry Knipfing Utsuki (卯月) on Komachi-Dori in Kamakura is far and away my favorite restaurant, and that’s saying something since I have li...
Culture Yokohama Kantei-Byo Shrine Tomoko Kamishima Kantei-byo (関帝廟) is a Chinese shrine dedicated to “Kanwu” who is a famous general in the well-known Chinese historical no...
Culture Zen at Kamakura's Kencho-ji Temple Tomoko Kamishima It was Saturday afternoon and I was at Kencho-ji Temple in Kita-Kamakura. A few minutes before two o’clock a bell rang to sig...
Food Yokohama's Tasty Aoba-Honkan Tomoko Kamishima Aoba is a casual and friendly restaurant situated on a convenient side street in Yokohama Chinatown. The food they serve is r...
Food Heichin-ro in Yokohama Chinatown Tomoko Kamishima Heichin-ro (聘珍楼) is one of the biggest and highest-grade Chinese restaurants in Yokohama Chinatown. It is situated in the ...
