8 Culture Nara's 1300-year-old wood buildings Keigetsu Watanabe Nara's Horyuji Temple, with wooden buildings over 1,300-year-old, was the first World Heritage site in Japan.
Tochigi in Video Jillian Engelhard Fosten Experience the great outdoors just two hours north of Tokyo in the city of Nikko.
Culture Re-building Kofu Castle Cathy Cawood Although Kofu Castle was a ruin, authentic replicas of one of the towers and one of the gates have been built by referring to...
Activities Cooking Sun: Japanese Cooking Class Camille Dufour-Blain Want to learn more about Japanese Food? Taking cooking classes is definitely the best way to do so. Cooking Sun is a cooking ...
Culture Inubo Cape Julian Bohler With its white lighthouse proudly overlooking the Pacific Ocean since 140 years, Inubo Cape is a magnificent, well preserved ...
15 Beauty of Shougenji Temple: Fukui Takako Sakamoto Shougenji is the head temple of 'Gugan Shinshu', founded in Fukui as a new sect of Jodo Shinshu in the Meiji Period. How beau...
10 Jurinji Narihiradera at Oshio Bonson Lam Jurinji sits in the tranquil hills between Osaka and Kyoto, just 30 minutes from Higashi Muko Station. Long before Kyoto, the...
Food Coffee at the Adachi Museum of Art Tristan Scholze Midori, an elegant and modern cafe at the Adachi Museum of Art, boasts views looking out at the world-class Dry Landscape Gar...
Activities Mount Tsubakuro via Enzanso Tom Roseveare 2,763m peak in the Northern Alps, Nagano Prefecture
