Like this post? Help us by sharing it! While the rest of the country is shivering under its kotatsus, the sun has returned to Japan’s subtropical oasis after a long and wet typhoon season! To celebrate, this week I took a short holiday from my job at a hotel on Okinawa’s main island to spend […]
November 2013
A Guide to Staying Connected in Japan
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! In today’s wired world a question that we get asked frequently is, “will we be able to access the Internet during our vacation”. Whether it be for work, play or a bit of both, being connected on a daily basis is of utmost importance to many. Most […]
Running in Tokyo
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Tokyo At Dusk
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! Whenever I travel I always take my running shoes. Pounding the hotel treadmill is all well and good for fitness, but getting out and hitting the streets is really what I like. Not just good for the heart and lungs, running gives you an alternative way to […]
Okinawa’s Haunted Hotel
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! This Halloween, some friends and I decided that before we followed the crowd to the photo-fest that is the costume party at Okinawa’s American Village, we would seek out a notorious abandoned (and reputedly haunted) hotel near the ruins of Nakagusuku-jo castle. The Japanese are seriously superstitious, […]
Something for the weekend – 151A: A moral from Japan
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! 151A: How can these 4 characters make a moral? Let me explain. For those of you who don’t know, the number one is pronounced ‘ichi’ in Japanese. Five is ‘go’. And ‘A’, well, ‘A’ is ‘A’. (In the Japanese phonetic alphabet, this becomes equivalent to ‘E’.) So, […]
Top 10 Okinawan Foods You Must Try
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! Continuing our top 10 lists of japan, InsideJapan’s Violet has been living in Okinawa for the last couple of months and is getting into her subtropical island specialities. Here are the top 10 Okinawan foods you must try… GOYA If there’s one thing that Okinawans define themselves […]
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! Continuing our top 10 lists of japan, InsideJapan’s Violet has been living in Okinawa for the last couple of months and is getting into her subtropical island specialities. Here are the top 10 Okinawan foods you must try… GOYA If there’s one thing that Okinawans define themselves […]