Like this post? Help us by sharing it! Written by InsideJapan Tours tour leader, Steve Parker Many people have heard of the famous Japanese hot spring baths (onsen) – water heated geo-thermally and then pumped into often landscaped bathing areas to create the perfect way to relax – washing and then soaking away till as […]
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Like this post? Help us by sharing it! InsideJapan Tours staff have all lived and worked in Japan and love the place, people and culture. We all get excited with the prospect of seeing a new Japan film or television programme. The upcoming adaptation of Murakami’s “Norwegian Wood” is one to watch but the current […]
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Like this post? Help us by sharing it! Speaking Japanese is frustrating. After six years of study, I am still bumbling around in the dark. To be fair, it’s not an easy language for a Devonian to learn. People say yes when they mean no, there are several different words for I and you, and […]
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Like this post? Help us by sharing it! As of May 2010 InsideJapan Tours began its quest for world domination, opening a branch just outside of Boulder, Colorado. Though thousands of miles apart, Colorado and Japan share many common bonds. Each beautiful and mountainous, a public love of hiking, skiing and good beer ensues in […]
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Like this post? Help us by sharing it! By refusing to accept that I needed only the one drink for the road home, the sake dens of Shinjuku had conspired to turn the soft grey evening sky into an over-optimistically bright sunrise. And this was my cue to find a bed for the what remained […]
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Like this post? Help us by sharing it! A good tour of Japan should always include a visit to the Mecca for gamers. Often just called ‘Gai-sen’ (ゲーセン) by the younger patrons, the ‘Game Center‘ (ゲームセンター) is like our good old Video arcades… but on steroids. From Sapporo to Nagasaki, people flock into windowless, five […]
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! A good tour of Japan should always include a visit to the Mecca for gamers. Often just called ‘Gai-sen’ (ゲーセン) by the younger patrons, the ‘Game Center‘ (ゲームセンター) is like our good old Video arcades… but on steroids. From Sapporo to Nagasaki, people flock into windowless, five […]