Like this post? Help us by sharing it! When you join one of the InsideJapan Tours, you will probably be wondering what your tour leader will be like – will they be knowledgeable, will they be interesting, will you like them, will they have a secret life and rock star alter-ego?!?!?! Perhaps you won’t be […]
First-Timer’s Japan
Five reasons to visit the north of Japan
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! Just fifteen minutes ago, before sitting down to write this, I was plunging into an outdoor hot-spring on the roof of my ryokan (Japanese Inn) watching the sun set over Sado Island, a lesser known destination off Japan’s north-west coast. With steam pouring into the cool air around […]
Asama Onsen: Have bath, drink milk.
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Cow juice
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! Hotto Puraza Asama, a 20 minute bus ride from Matsumoto station, has all you need for a relaxing afternoon soak: outdoor and indoor baths, a jet-bath and a sauna. Oh, and a vending machine stocked with milk. For some reason, onsen and milk go together like sport and Lucozade. The cow juice is a rare treat – but it makes you miss Weetabix […]
10 Reasons why Japan is so great. No. 9 – Respect
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! Once again, this overlaps with other categories such as culture and the people, but it is one aspect of Japan that is obvious in every day life and deserves a big mention. At the risk of sounding too much like an old man here, I think that […]
10 Reasons why Japan is so great – No.8 Contrasts
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! Having already mentioned the fact that culture and tradition are so prevalent in everyday life everywhere in Japan this is pretty similar but worth a mention on its own I think. Japan is a working synchronisation of old and new which is witnessed everywhere, but especially so […]
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! Having already mentioned the fact that culture and tradition are so prevalent in everyday life everywhere in Japan this is pretty similar but worth a mention on its own I think. Japan is a working synchronisation of old and new which is witnessed everywhere, but especially so […]