Culture Kyoto International Manga Museum Bonson Lam Make your own adventure in this monument to storytelling at Kyoto Manga Museum. From Tin Toys to Hokusai, see for yourself th...
Culture Kyoto Eikan-do Temple Tomoko Kamishima Eikan-do Ttemple has fascinating vertical corridors that bring visitors on an excursion up and down and around the entire tem...
Culture Cormorant Fishing in Nagara River Hessel Ukai or Cormorant fishing is a 1300-year old tradition of catching fish with Cormorants. Something Charlie Chaplin called "am...
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...
Culture Doronko Matsuri Mud Festival 2024 Anonymous Shirokawa's Doronko Mud Festival in early summer has it all – bulls, devils, wrestling, pulsing drums and dancing virgins in ...
Culture Nagasaki Glover Garden Tomoko Kamishima In Nagasaki, there is a stylish Western house high up on a cliff in Minami Yamate, commanding a panoramic view of Nagasaki Po...
Culture Old Shimbashi Station Tomoko Kamishima Old Shimbashi Station represents a long-lasting bond between Britain and Japan. Restored building and “0 Mile” marker are sym...
Culture Japanese Overseas Migration Museum David Hallman A unique, free museum sandwiched between Yokohama shopping malls. Take a break from the mayhem to learn about the Japanese ex...
Culture Yamate History Archives Tomoko Kamishima One of the preserved buildings, the Yamate History Archives (Shiryo-kan 山手資料館 ) now acts as an archive of the old Yamate...
Culture In Search of the Sakai Daimyo in Tsuruoka City Alena Eckelmann The Sakai, a samurai clan that originated in the 14thcentury, became chief retainers to the Shoguns of the Tokugawa Clan. The...