Like this post? Help us by sharing it! If you’re a foodie there’s a good chance that you’ve already hear of Takazawa. The restaurant, named after it’s owner and chef, was ranked in the top 50 restaurant in Asia in both 2014 and 2015. Takazawa is loved by critics and patronized daily by Tokyo’s elite. In newspapers and magazines there […]
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The Yamazaki Whisky Distillery is Pretty Neat!
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! A favourite pastime in Japan in summer is to get together with friends and while away the balmy nights around a habachi barbecue with some ice cold beers. In February however, what with the frequent snowfall and early sunsets, those long evenings can seem a distant memory. Beer […]
Tokyo’s Top Ten Wackiest Restaurants
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! Strange fads, outrageous fashions, incomprehensible crazes… Japan has achieved worldwide fame for being “weird.” Say this to some people and they will roll their eyes and assure you that Japan is not as strange as you think. And many ways they are right: the famously crazy fashion […]
The Joy of Sake
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! Richard Pearce is one of InsideJapan Tour’s knowledgeable tour leaders. When Richard is not taking people around Japan, he hides away in the mountains of deepest darkest rural Japan with his fingers in many cultural pies…. Living in rural Japan has many, many benefits, as I’ve touched […]
Discovering Shizuoka green tea
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Serving Green Tea
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! While I was on my last Japan trip I had the opportunity to visit a tea farm in Shizuoka prefecture, along the Kurigatake mountain route. I stopped at Higashiyama-Ippuku-dokoro to find out more about Japanese green tea production, work in the tea fields, the ecosystem of the […]
Japanese Chocolate
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! With less than 1% of Japan being Christian, the Japanese people generally, do not tend celebrate Easter, they do however love chocolate – so we thought we’d take this opportunity to take a look at a few of the countries most popular chocy treats! Although not a […]
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! With less than 1% of Japan being Christian, the Japanese people generally, do not tend celebrate Easter, they do however love chocolate – so we thought we’d take this opportunity to take a look at a few of the countries most popular chocy treats! Although not a […]