Culture The Kokura Gion Festival 2024 Anonymous The Kokura Gion Festival is a frenzy of mid-summer community drumming in northern Kyushu. Get your taiko on!
Shopping Den Den Town: Nipponbashi Ash Den Den Town, also known as Nipponbashi, is Osaka's answer to Akihabara.
Transportation Osaka Itami Airport to Kyoto Bonson Lam Given there is no direct train from Osaka airport to Kyoto, is the bus or a monorail/ train combination better? Inside tips a...
Culture Ukai at Inuyama Chris Glenn For over 1300 years, the traditional art of cormorant fishing has been practiced on the river below Inuyama Castle.
Culture Tsurugaoka Hachimangu Shrine Tomoko Kamishima Starting more than 800 years ago, Tsurugaoka Hachimangu Shrine was the center of the great samurai city of Kamakura.
Transportation Matsuyama Tourist Port Anonymous Matsuyama Tourist Port is a convenient sea link between central Ehime and Honshu and Kyushu.
Area Ikoma Paul Hackshaw Ikoma is in the northwestern part of Nara Prefecture and is noted for Mt Ikoma, the mountain range which divides Osaka from N...
Activities Sample Village Iwasaki Justin Dart If there is such a place as the shrine to Plastic replicated food. Iwasaki Sample Factory is the place...And even you can try...
Shopping Mitsuhama Morning Fish Market Anonymous Visit the Mitsuhama Morning Fish Market to see how the average Japanese like to buy their seafood. Ehime's answer to Tokyo's ...
Culture Visiting Bansuiso Anonymous Bansuiso is a large villa, built in a 19th Century somewhat Gothic French style. It sits at the base of the hill where the ca...
