Activities Tokyo Mukojima Hyakka-en Gardens Tomoko Kamishima People in Edo (old Tokyo) adored flowers. Especially during the time of “Bunka-Bunsei” (1804-1829, in the late Edo Era), a lo...
Culture Asakusa’s Traditional Hagoita Fair Tomoko Kamishima Asakusa is famous for its annual year-end Hagoita (Battledore) Fair held December 17-19. It started in the late 16th century ...
Culture Karuizawa Shaw Memorial Chapel Tomoko Kamishima Owning a summer cottage in Karuizawa is now a status symbol in Japanese. But the first cottage was built by a conservative fo...
Activities Tochigi Iwafune-san Kosho-ji Temple Tomoko Kamishima Iwafune-san Rock looks like a boat left on the broad Kanto Plain. The rock itself has been deified and is worshiped as a god....
Beauty & Spa Shinetsu Trail, Part 1 Rowland Douglas The Shinetsu Trail is a 4-6 day hike, running north-east from Mt. Madarao by Lake Nojiri. Moderately strenuous but not techni...
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.
Activities Climbing Fuji: Yoshida Trail Georgina Young Climbing Mt Fuji did not always go smoothly. Here are the mistakes I made so that you can learn from them.
Culture Searching for Ebisu Reynald Ventura A trip to Yakushima, Kagoshima Prefecture in search for Ebisu, the fishing god.
Nightlife Kispa La Park Haruki Kishiwada Bonson Lam Like Hokkaido in the North, Nankaido refers to the South sea road, a country defined by its own customs and dialect. It even ...
Food Freshness Burger in Kamakura Jessica A Paje Recently sparked in the news by the brilliant marketing campaign of the “Liberation Wrapper” and “Freeing women from the spel...
