Like this post? Help us by sharing it! Matsumoto has lots to offer its visitors: sake breweries, wasabi farms, the world’s largest private collection of ukiyoe (woodblock prints) and not forgetting one of Japan’s best preserved and visually striking castles. But, unfortunately, many visitors are here just for one day. With the time constrained punter […]
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Spring Elegance, Tokyo and beyond – It’s great Part 2
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! Earlier on in April, we had a great blog diary from one of our customers travelling in Japan on the Spring Elegance tour. Tina Vivona and her family from Illinois were in Japan whilst governments still advised against travelling to Tokyo but continued to enjoy the spring […]
Pass me the corkscrew
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! The other evening I found myself drinking a nice drop of red and my mind was inspired to drift back to to my time living in the beautiful prefecture of Yamanashi. Why, you may ask, did this Argentinean vino remind me of my Japanese adventure? Well, though […]
Monday night in Shinjuku, Tokyo
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! Monday April 18th 7pm was the last night and our final dinner of the first Hidden Japan tour of the year. We were in Shinjuku, the bright neon heart of central Tokyo. We ate at a traditional izakaya (Japanese diner). Earlier in our tour, we had a memorable picnic under the sakura […]
Chiba Prefecture. Who knew?
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! My colleague calls it the armpit of Japan. Well, Chiba certainly has a distinctive shape; a huge prefecture sticking out at a great ugly right-angle, like a protective claw around Tokyo bay. And it feeds the capital too, providing millions upon millions of cheap concrete apartment blocks […]
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! My colleague calls it the armpit of Japan. Well, Chiba certainly has a distinctive shape; a huge prefecture sticking out at a great ugly right-angle, like a protective claw around Tokyo bay. And it feeds the capital too, providing millions upon millions of cheap concrete apartment blocks […]