Activities Osarizawa Mine in Akita Justin Velgus The mines of northern Akita were once the largest of Japan, and at one time, the world! Enter the darkness and discover secre...
12 Culture Shutter Art at Senso-ji Temple Larry Knipfing If you come early, before any of the shops open along the long street that leads to the temple from Kaminarimon Gate, you’re ...
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...
Activities Chiba's Makuhari Convention Hall Todd Wojnowski Makuhari Messe is a massive convention center that hosts numerous trade shows, concerts, business conferences, and other even...
Activities Climbing Mt. Ishizuchi Anonymous Mt. Ishizuchi, the highest mountain in western Japan, is an easy enough walk, except for the last bit.
Food Gal Café 10sion in Shibuya Miyoko Kokubo Are you interested in female Japanese sub-culture and would like to know more about their makeup techniques? Gal Café 10sion ...
8 Culture Yamate No.234 Tomoko Kamishima A private enterprise built an apartment house at Yamate No.234 for the purpose of coaxing back foreigners to devastated Yokoh...
Activities Winter at Naeba Ski Resort Rufus Starbuck Naeba ski resort is one of the most well known winter resorts on the main island of Japan. Dominated by the big Prince Hotel ...
6 Culture Yamate No.68 Tomoko Kamishima Yamate No.68 stands inside Yamate Koen Park, where the history of tennis began in Japan. Yokohama City later purchased the ho...
9 Culture Yokohama Yamate No.111 Tomoko Kamishima In 1926 an American businessman, Thomas Melvin Laffin, built a house for his just-married son, John Edward. They asked J.H. M...
