Accommodation Shimoda Tokyu Hotel Peter Sidell In Shimoda on the Izu Peninsula in Japan's Shizuoka prefecture, Tokyu Hotel has rooms overlooking the ocean or mountains, two...
6 Shopping Tokyo Skytree Solamachi Mall R A The new Tokyo Skytree Solamachi mall breathes new life into the historical old downtown Shitamachi district of Tokyo. Dubbed ...
Amazing Outside Corridors -1 Tomoko Kamishima Eikan-do 永観堂, officially called Zenrin-ji Temple 禅林寺 has a collection of amazing outside corridors connecting several t...
Sezon Museum of Modern Art, Garden Tomoko Kamishima Sezon Museum of Modern Art sits in a forest, and actually it was designed as “Museum in deep green.”
Culture Ikebana at Ami Kyoto Mandy Bartok A single bloom. A knobby twig, A stalk of leaves, perfectly arranged in a ceramic bowl. If you've traveled around Japan for a...
Activities Koriyama Castle Cherry Blossoms Erin Fitzgerald For the cherry blossom season, the site of Koriyama Castle explodes into gentle pink beauty for Oshiro Matsuri, or the Castle...
9 Kyoto Takase-gawa Riverside Walk Tomoko Kamishima The Takase River in downtown Kyoto, is one of the city's most popular, beautiful, and magical spots for cherry blossoms.
6 Shopping Ogaki Shoten Karasuma Oike Kyoto Bonson Lam The Ogaki Shoten Book, Magazine and Stationery Store has been a Kyoto Institution since 1942, with over 10 branches in this c...
Food Men-ya Lennon Barry Louie Men-ya Lennon has excellent ramen just a few minutes walk from JR Otsu Station.
Beauty & Spa Imabari Yunoura Heights Onsen Anonymous This onsen is the public bathing area of the Imabari Yunoura Heights hotel, located just outside the town of Imabari on a hil...
