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Sports & Adventure
Why Nozawa Onsen is our favourite ski resort of all time
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! If you’re an avid snowsports fan, the first Japanese resort that springs to mind will probably be Niseko, which is widely (and deservedly, we might add) considered to be Japan’s biggest and best. You might also have heard of Hakuba – slightly smaller and less well-known, but […]
Top 5 Reasons to Dive in Japan
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! Our diving expert and tour leader of the new, ‘Diving Japan’ group tour, is pretty good at getting beneath the surface. Chris Knox lived in Osaka for four years, teaching English and has since worked all over the world as a Dive Master. When he moved to […]
Running in Japan – Nakanoshima
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Lanes of Nakanoshima
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! I’ve written a few times for this blog about running whilst in Japan; Osaka at dawn and the Tokyo Imperial Palace circuit. It seems fitting then that I write about this morning’s little four miler, a beautiful jaunt through the tiny lanes of Nakanoshima. If you don’t […]
11 things you probably never knew about sumo wrestling
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! Everyone thinks they know what sumo wrestling is. A sand covered ring. Loin cloths. Men slamming into each other. But there’s a lot more to Japan’s national sport than that… 1. Sumo is a religious ritual Compared with most sports in the world today, sumo originated […]
My First Dive in Japan
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The mask was perhaps a little too tight!
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! Having never dived before, I found the idea of plunging down to 12m below the sea a little daunting at first. What if my ears can’t cope with it? Are there sharks in Ishigaki? Jellyfish!? Luckily the reassuring staff at Umikoza Dive School were able to answer […]