Hotel Metropolitan Sendai: Tohoku-Style Omotenashi Tradition and modernity meet at The Gateway to Tohoku. Founded by the great warlord Date…
Connecting the Art World with a Historic Collaboration Boston Museum of Fine Arts Director Malcolm Rogers looks back at a unique museum partnership…
Suika Road Race Preview: A Chiba 5K/10K That Runs on Watermelons We take a look ahead to one of Tokyo’s original themed races: a watermelon run…
Iconic Plum Trees of Umeno Koen to Be Felled after Pox Outbreak Before the cherry blooms in spring, its lesser known sister, the plum, gives us the…
Traveling in the Footsteps of Kuroda Kanbe The founding father of the Fukuoka domain and hero of the popular drama Gunshi Kanbē…
The Truth about Japanese Bus Tours Rule #1: Beer Helps By Ken Seeroi, Japanese Rule of 7 So I went on…
Springtime in Ichikawa Home to many of Chiba’s most serene and charming sites, Ichikawa is steadily emerging onto…
Yubari Fantastic International Film Festival – Sex, Violence and Snow Last week saw the end of the 2014 Yubari Fantastic International Film Festival (Yubari Fanta),…
Revisiting the Tohoku city of Rikuzentakata, three years later Three years after the devastation of 3/11, the cities and the people of Tohoku are…
JR East takes first steps towards launching “footspa Shinkansen” Count on Japanese railway companies to think of ways to put your feet up, or…
Snow monkey paradise in “hell valley”: Jigokudani Yaen-Koen Jigokudani means Hell Valley in Japanese, and received this moniker long before monkeys began monkeying…
Cinema among the snowdrifts: Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival The ski slopes aren’t the only reason to head up to Hokkaido this month as…
6th Okinawa International Movie Festival Announced The lineup for the 6th Okinawa International Movie Festival (OIMF) was announced today along with…
A taste of Kyoto culture The snow was already starting to fall on our arrival at the Chinzanso Hotel, and…
Japan tops the list for virtual travel destinations Japan has always been a popular tourist destination, and now it’s on the top of…
