We caught up with Fergal, one of our tour leader experts, who ran three of his fave tours — HyperJapan, JPop and Go — in 2023.
Culture & History
Things to read and watch before visiting Japan
From the beauty of anime to small form documentaries, we’ve put together a list of some of our and our communities’ favourite bits of Japanese content.
Can you eat vegan in Japan?
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! Can you eat vegan in Japan? As veganism becomes increasingly common in the Western world, we find more customers asking us how easy it is to eat vegan in Japan. And that makes sense: for lots of us, food is a huge part of experiencing different cultures […]
Contemporary art in Japan: a roundup of weird, wonderful exhibits and installations
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! This year, teamLab – the world-famous Japanese art collective – is celebrating 20 years of bringing together art, science, technology and nature with its mesmerising, immersive installations. So, in the name of all things contemporary, arty, and sometimes ultra-futuristic, we’ve decided to mark the occasion by taking […]
Tsunami Reflections
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! Ten years ago, on 11th March 2011, a huge earthquake measuring 9.0 magnitude shook the north-east coast of Japan. In the tsunami which followed over 18,000 people lost their lives. At a time when all our lives are turned upside down by the coronavirus pandemic, there is a […]
The best alternative experiences in Japan
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! Sometimes, the best way to get under the skin of Japanese culture is through something you never thought of as Japanese at all. Take baseball, for instance. It may not scream Japan to you, but seeing how Japanese fans throw their hearts and souls into this quintessentially […]
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! Sometimes, the best way to get under the skin of Japanese culture is through something you never thought of as Japanese at all. Take baseball, for instance. It may not scream Japan to you, but seeing how Japanese fans throw their hearts and souls into this quintessentially […]