Like this post? Help us by sharing it! Before going on a holiday to Japan, learn about the superstitions that are part of the unique culture of the region. Japanese culture has a wide range of interesting folk-tales and superstitions that differ from Western cultures. Four is the Number for Death The superstition that the […]
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It’s a Dogs Life in Japan!
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! People on my trips often comment on how few dogs they see in Japan – by that I think they mean what they might consider as “real” dogs; Red Setters with dribbling jowls bounding across parkland to fetch a ball, Labradors rolling around in the grass, perhaps […]
Tokyo Ghost Hunting – who ya gonna call?!
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GhostHill
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! One of our Tokyo based tour leaders, Axel Derbouraix has recently been discovering a slightly scarier side of Tokyo. Here is what he had to say, Like many boys of my generation, after watching ‘Ghostbusters’, I imagined myself chasing demons and goblins of all sorts. Eventually, fifteen […]
The cats that got the Shinjuku cream
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! On my last trip to Japan I wanted to do something really, well, Japanese… Something a bit different, something very modern and something I could only find in Japan. So tour leader Liam volunteered to show me Shinjuku’s finest cat cafe. Like this post? Help us by […]
Fax to the Future
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Retro
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! There is no doubt that Japan can be a futuristic wonderland: networked toilets that can analyse your offerings and report anomalies to your doctor, electric charge generators used to instantly age wine and karaoke damage limitation devices that can automatically add harmonies to your crooning and, as […]