Like this post? Help us by sharing it! Amy, from Inside Japan’s US office is traveling around Japan! She’s currently in Kamakura, and should you need a reason to visit, she has plenty! The small seaside town, temple town of Kamakura is just a one hour trip from the Tokyo Metropolis and an excellent day trip […]
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Outside the Green Bubble
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! The Chuō Line, or central line, cuts through the circular Yamanote Line from Tokyo to Shinjuku, and continues west to the nearby mountains, with some trains even going on as far as Nagoya. The first few stops, from Nakano to Kichijōji, top many Tokyoites’ list of most […]
Top 5 things to do in the Yaeyamas
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! While the rest of the country is shivering under its kotatsus, the sun has returned to Japan’s subtropical oasis after a long and wet typhoon season! To celebrate, this week I took a short holiday from my job at a hotel on Okinawa’s main island to spend […]
Okinawa’s Haunted Hotel
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The Royal Hotel
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! This Halloween, some friends and I decided that before we followed the crowd to the photo-fest that is the costume party at Okinawa’s American Village, we would seek out a notorious abandoned (and reputedly haunted) hotel near the ruins of Nakagusuku-jo castle. The Japanese are seriously superstitious, […]
Okinawa Shisa
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! It’s impossible to go anywhere in Okinawa without encountering the “shisa” – Okinawa’s take on the Chinese guardian lion. Resembling a cross between a lion and a dog, shisa come in pairs and can be found flanking the entrance of pretty much every house or building in […]
Tomonoura – The Real Japan
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Tomonoura Sign
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! “Have a nice…memory…in Japan”, said the smiling bus driver as I stepped off the bus from Fukuyama station, at the charming port town of Tomonoura. I had just spent a week working in Nagoya, so my overnight trip to the sea was something I had been looking […]