Like this post? Help us by sharing it! Following in the footsteps of samurai and priests, Ali Muskett goes in search of a spiritual side of Japan as she walks the pilgrimage routes of the Kumano Kodo. This article originally appeared in issue #2 of East, the Inside Asia Tours magazine. Subscribe for free or […]
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Exploring the Shimokita Peninsula
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 […]
A morning run through Yamanaka Onsen
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Introducing 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
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
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Moss-covered statues along the Kyoto Trail
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
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!
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!