Like this post? Help us by sharing it! Travel consultant Leslie gears up for an evening inside a rainbow explosion at the Kawaii Monster Café in Harajuku (complete with a lemur waiter!) Like this post? Help us by sharing it!
January 2019
Hiking in Japan: Mount Kintoki (Mount Ashigara)
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! With the mighty Mount Fuji, Japan is a wonderland for hikers, but for the best Fuji views tour leader Brian Beatty recommends taking on Mount Kintoki. Like this post? Help us by sharing it!
What is a Japanese tea ceremony?
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! With a series of ancient rituals that take place in traditional houses with tatami mat floors and sliding paper doors, the Japanese tea ceremony makes putting the kettle on look primitive. Like this post? Help us by sharing it!
Susie Chan: Running the Nakasendo Way in Japan
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! Having run countless endurance races and ultra-marathons, just reading Susie Chan’s list of achievements makes us feel like we need a lie down. Earlier this year, she laced up her well-worn shoes in search of Japan’s ancient Nakasendo Way. Like this post? Help us by sharing it!
Hiking in Japan: The Shin-Etsu Trail
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! New year, new you? Thanks to its excellent accessibility from a number of cities such as Tokyo, Kanazawa, and Nagano, the 70km (44 mile) long Shin-Etsu Trail is one of our favourite undiscovered hiking trails and the perfect place to blow away those December cobwebs. Like this […]
Japan in 2019: What’s new?
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! We hope you’re having a wonderfully festive Christmas with lots of food and drink (as well as a present or two!) While we’re not wishing the holidays away, 2019 is set to be a momentous year for Japan, so we’re peeking around the corner to see what’s […]
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! We hope you’re having a wonderfully festive Christmas with lots of food and drink (as well as a present or two!) While we’re not wishing the holidays away, 2019 is set to be a momentous year for Japan, so we’re peeking around the corner to see what’s […]