Culture Kakiemon Pottery Showroom Miriam Thielen Vaz Dias Kakiemon is a tradition of potters, starting with Sakaida Kakiemon and currently managed by his fourteenth descendant, who is...
16 Culture A (Very) Rustic Ceramics Factory Tristan Scholze Photo tour of an old and passing ceramics factory in the little pottery town of Arita, Saga, Japan. An anti-modern countrysid...
Food Café Restaurant Warokuya Mandy Bartok Take a break from bathing and fill up on curry and parfaits at Cafe Restaurant Warokuya in Kurokawa Onsen
6 Culture Honmaru Goten Palace Mandy Bartok Kumamoto Castle's Honmaru Goten Palace showcases beautifully painted walls and screens, recently restored to their former glory
Culture Kanzeon-ji Buddhist Temple Tony Mariani A temple built to honor Empress Saimei and home to a National Treasure
Food Bunmeido Castella Shop Mandy Bartok Finish any meal in Nagasaki with a castella cake from Bunmeido, one of the city's most famous confectioners
Food Nagasaki's Chinatown Alena Eckelmann Nagasaki's Chinatown, home of Nagasaki's famous noodle dishes - champon and sara udon
Culture Siebold Memorial Museum in Nagasaki Alena Eckelmann The most famous German in Japan is probably Philipp Franz von Siebold (1796-1866), a national of Bavaria in present-day Germany
Culture Iwatoyama Keyhole Tomb Mandy Bartok The Iwatoyama keyhole tomb in southern Fukuoka prefecture is a classic example of a 7th century kofun burial mound.
