Like this post? Help us by sharing it! Located right at the northern tip of Honshu, Japan’s main island, the axe-shaped Shimokita Peninsula may not (yet) be somewhere on your wish list of places to visit in Japan. However even in this remote part of Japan you can find one of the country’s top three […]
Travellers’ Tales
A morning run through Yamanaka Onsen
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! Mat is branch manager at our office in Boulder Colorado. A committed marathon-runner, he loves to run all over Japan – where he lived for three years in Yamanashi Prefecture. In this post, he introduces us to Yamanaka Onsen through the eyes of a runner. Like this […]
First-timer’s Japan: Top tips
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Tom's top tips for trips to Japan
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! Tom Bulloch and Roberta Howery travelled to Japan with us in May and fell in love with the country and its people. Here, Tom explains what made their trip so fantastic and give a few top tips and recommendations for other first-time travellers to Japan. Like this […]
Walking the Kyoto Trail: Part three
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! In the final instalment of his three-part series on the hiking courses in the mountains surrounding Kyoto City, IJT guide Takeshi Suzuki joins tour leader Richard Farmer on a hike from Toganoo to the bamboo groves of Arashiyama. Like this post? Help us by sharing it!
Walking the Kyoto Trail: Part two
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Suzuki-san at the top of Mount Daimonjiyama
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! Inside Japan Tours guide Takeshi Suzuki recently spent three days hiking the Kyoto Trail with tour leader Richard Farmer. In the second of three posts on the subject, Suzuki-san describes their journey from Keage to Ginkakuji Temple. Like this post? Help us by sharing it!
Walking the Kyoto Trail: Part one
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! Takeshi Suzuki is a full-time guide for Inside Japan Tours, showing our customers around Kyoto, Osaka, and the other fascinating sights of the Kansai/Kinki region. Recently, Suzuki-san teamed up with our Kyoto-based tour leader Richard for three days walking the Kyoto Trail. This is the first of […]
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! Takeshi Suzuki is a full-time guide for Inside Japan Tours, showing our customers around Kyoto, Osaka, and the other fascinating sights of the Kansai/Kinki region. Recently, Suzuki-san teamed up with our Kyoto-based tour leader Richard for three days walking the Kyoto Trail. This is the first of […]