Like this post? Help us by sharing it! Tour leader Charlea Jefts thinks that no trip to Japan is complete without a traditional countryside experience, and where better than Takayama, a well-preserved town in the Japanese Alps. Like this post? Help us by sharing it!
July 2017
Art in the most unexpected places: Manhole covers in Japan
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! Japan is full of surprises – this is the country of J-Pop, sumo wrestling and geisha after all. Perhaps one of the loveliest and most surprising things about Japan though is the way that public places are cared for. Those clean streets are one of Japan’s finest attributes, […]
Traditional Japan: Hida Furukawa or Takayama?
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! Lily, one of our senior travel consultants, recently returned from Japan with a new, and unexpected, passion for a little place called Hida Furukawa. Like this post? Help us by sharing it!
Six reasons to visit the Yoichi Whisky Distillery
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! When Richard Farmer isn’t whisky-ing groups around the country, he’s busy researching for our tours to find something for everyone. For the whisky lovers, he’s following up his experience at Suntory Yamazaki with six reasons to visit Yoichi Whisky Distillery. Like this post? Help us by sharing it!
A reluctant walker hikes Mount Hiei, Kyoto
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! Georgia got in touch with her inner hiker on a recent trip to Kyoto with tour leader, Richard Farmer. Bears, Buddhism and cherry blossom were just a few of the surprises at the top. Like this post? Help us by sharing it!