Like this post? Help us by sharing it! Travel consultant Rachel Grainger recently spent a month travelling in Japan and tried a number of local specialties as she made her way around the country. Here, she introduces each of them – and explains why you should go out of your way to try them! Like […]
September 2016
First-timer’s Japan: Top tips
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! Tom Bulloch and Roberta Howery travelled to Japan with us in May and fell in love with the country and its people. Here, Tom explains what made their trip so fantastic and give a few top tips and recommendations for other first-time travellers to Japan. Like this […]
Koenji Awaodori: Tokyo’s great typhoon-dodging festival
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Koenji Awaodori Festival: Look this way
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! Steve Parker is one of our longest-serving and most experienced tour leaders. Though he has a passion for the outdoors (in particular the mountains, where he loves leading our Historic Mountain Trails group tours), Steve also finds plenty to be fascinated by in his hometown: a Tokyo […]
A delicious day out in Japan: Making takoyaki from scratch
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! Richard Farmer is our very own travel-consultant-turned-tour-leader, blogger extraordinaire and expert in Zen Buddhism. When he’s not turning his hand to those pursuits, however, what does he get up to? We caught up with Richard after a day of culinary adventures in the Kansai region. Like this […]
Walking the Nakasendo Way
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The beautiful village of Magome, Kester's starting point
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! We’re all looking forward to watching Joanna Lumley walk the Nakasendo Way this evening, but what should she expect? Travel consultant Kester recently fulfilled his ambition to walk a section of the old feudal highway, so read on to find out how he fared. Like this post? […]
8 places to see art in Tokyo: Gallery-hopping the Ginza Massif
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! David Lovejoy is one of our expert tour leaders out in Japan. Based in Tokyo, where he has lived for several years, David studied art at university and has a passion for art, photography and cinema. There could be nobody better to introduce the many hidden galleries, […]
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! David Lovejoy is one of our expert tour leaders out in Japan. Based in Tokyo, where he has lived for several years, David studied art at university and has a passion for art, photography and cinema. There could be nobody better to introduce the many hidden galleries, […]