Culture Nippo Coast Rock Oyster Festival 2026 Kim Bergström The Nippo Coast Rock Oyster Festival celebrates this revered local delicacy, with several different restaurants in Saiki City...
Culture Pinwheels at Kawagoe Hikawa Shrine 2026 Lynda Hogan The wind chimes at Kawagoe Hikawa Shrine are known far and wide, but for the month before the illustrious wind chime event, y...
Activities Lavender Season at the Tambara Lavender Park 2026 Kim Bergström Japan's most well-known summertime lavender fields are likely to be those at Furano in Hokkaido, but there are numerous other...
Culture Saitama City's Iwatsuki Ningyo Museum Elizabeth S Iwatsuki Ward in Saitama City is famed for generations of doll artisans and showrooms full of dolls of all kinds and their ac...
Culture Hino City - Museums & Galleries Sleiman Azizi As a bedroom community for central Tokyo, Hino City surprises with its Shinsengumi samurai police force heritagey. This small...
Food How Sake is Made Yoshi Hirasawa As sake is made from rice, local rice producers are finding a new acquirer. Therefore the brewery is actively increasing the ...
Food Afuri Ramen Stores Going Cashless Kim Bergström The much-loved ramen chain Afuri are moving with the times, in part prompted by the pandemic - they're shifting towards cashl...
Accommodation Hilton Niseko Releases Four Summer Accommodation Plans Kim Bergström Though Niseko may be best known as a winter sports destination, there's plenty to enjoy in the region during the summer month...
Culture Kanazawa's Noh Museum Peter Sidell In Kanazawa in Japan's Ishikawa prefecture, the Noh Museum is what it sounds like. You can see masks and costumes used in per...
