11 Activities Tottan Saltworks Tristan Scholze Tottan Saltworks is a beautiful retreat on the beach. They use just sun, wind, and firewood to obtain salt from seawater; you...
Food An Oyster Hut Excursion in Itoshima Tristan Scholze Get your winter barbecue on with fresh oysters
Culture Dejima Mandy Bartok For over 200 hundred years, the tiny island of Dejima in Nagasaki Harbor was Japan's only point of contact with the wider world.
Food Big Man Burger Stand Mandy Bartok When in Sasebo, don't miss out on the town's eponymous burgers, claimed to have originated here in the 1950s thanks to US sai...
Culture Sakura-no-baba Josaien Mandy Bartok Learn about the origins of Kumamoto's castle town at Sakuranobaba Josaien, an Edo-themed complex full of displays, restaurant...
Activities Kikuchi Castle Mandy Bartok Kikuchi Castle boasts a long history and a recently reconstructed drum tower on its expansive grounds in the mountains of Kum...
Food Senri Restaurant Mandy Bartok Senri Restaurant offers fine dining with an unforgettable view of Kumamoto's Suizen-ji Garden
Food Koinoshizuku Restaurant Mandy Bartok Koinoshizuku restaurant in downtown Kumamoto serves up local specialties like horse meat and spicy lotus root at a great price
9 Culture Nagasaki Ohura Church Tomoko Kamishima Ohura Church stands on a hill in the Minami-yamate section of Nagasaki. It was built in 1865 as a Catholic Church memorial to...
