Like this post? Help us by sharing it! Intrepid tour leader Richard Pearce likes to get involved in Japanese culture stuck out there in rural Japan. Here is one of his latest little adventures….A tug o’ war – Japan style…. At the invite of the town council, myself and a group of English teachers […]
Festivals & Events
Northern festival madness
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! Japan is not known for doing things by halves. Having developed one of the world’s most technically advanced and super efficient high speed rail networks and taken the experience of going to the toilet to a whole new level it should come as no surprise that when […]
Learning to love Osaka
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Gulico Man - Dontonburi
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! Our Mark from the UK office spends quite a bit of his time tour leading in Japan too. He recently headed out to Japan to lead a couple of tours along with doing a bit of volunteering in Tohoku and partying at the huge traditional summer festivals […]
Summer Festivals + Yukata = Romance?!
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Traditional Japanese yukata
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! Here is the latest blog piece from one of the InsideJapan team in our Nagoya office. The very talented Tomoko san gives us the background on wearing the traditional Japanese yukata. You may think that there is more to wearing the yukata, but Tomoko san tells us […]
Running with the gods
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! It was 5:30pm on a warm Wednesday in the small town of Aso on the island of Kyushu. I was drunk, drenched in sweat, and on the verge of a coronary. I was also missing one of my recently purchased and highly treasured flip-flops. I was in […]
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! It was 5:30pm on a warm Wednesday in the small town of Aso on the island of Kyushu. I was drunk, drenched in sweat, and on the verge of a coronary. I was also missing one of my recently purchased and highly treasured flip-flops. I was in […]