12 Activities Kamakura Camera - Summer by the Sea Peter Oxley After a hiatus of nearly three years due to restrictions dictated by Covid, the city's beach cafes and taverns are open once ...
Culture Tanabata Star Festival at Kongoji 2026 Ju On the 7th of July, Tanabata Festival is held all across Japan. People write wishes on colored paper strips and use them to d...
Activities Konica Minolta Planetaria Yokohama Kim Bergström The Konica Minolta Planetaria Yokohama is designed to emulate a glamping experience under the starry night sky, and the venue...
Culture Matsuda Wintersweet Festival 2027 Anonymous In the Yadoriki area of Matsuda town, witness a huge field of over 20,000 wintersweet plants. The festival runs from mid-Ja...
A Tour with a Difference: Oyama’s Cultural Heritage Tom Roseveare The path to Oyama Afuri Shrine It’s a crisp late autumn Sunday morning as I step off the cable car, with panoramic mountain v...
10 Culture Kamakura Camera Egara Tenjin-sha Shrine Peter Oxley Let's visit Egara Tenjin-sha, an important Shinto shrine dedicated to a poet and scholar who loved plum blossoms.
Activities Odawara Flower Garden Plum Festival 2027 Kim Bergström The annual Odawara Flower Garden Plum Festival showcases the beauty of early, mid, and late blooming plum tree varieties, alo...
Accommodation Kishi-ke: a Modern Ryokan Veronica Carnevale Kishi-ke is traditional, yet modern, Japanese-style inn that aims to connect guests with the present and help them achieve in...
Accommodation Observing Jogashima Island’s Birdlife Steve Morton For anyone interested in the fevered variety of birds then look no further than Jogashima Island in Southern Kanagawa where y...
Accommodation Rex Inn Kawasaki Peter Sidell In Kawasaki in Japan's Kanagawa prefecture, Rex Inn is a typical Japanese capsule hotel, offering low-price accommodation to ...
