Like this post? Help us by sharing it! Blog post written by Steve Parker (InsideJapan Tours tour leader) The images beamed across the globe in recent weeks have been indeed deeply distressing – not least for those of us who have spent a number of years in this great country. However, Japan is a country […]
Travellers’ Tales
Family trip during the earthquake & tsunami
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! The Linville family travelled to Japan at the beginning of March 2011, a couple of days before the massive earthquake and tsunami struck the Tohoku region in northern Japan on March 11th. The family of four started their trip in Tokyo before heading to the cultural capital […]
West Meets East – A response to the UK TV show ‘JLC: Turning Japanese’
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Tokyo at night - Japan is great
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! InsideJapan Tours staff have all lived and worked in Japan and love the place, people and culture. We all get excited with the prospect of seeing a new Japan film or television programme. The upcoming adaptation of Murakami’s “Norwegian Wood” is one to watch but the current […]
Extraordinary Unzen
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The cheapest hot spring bath in Unzen, Nagasaki prefecture.
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! At lunchtime in central Unzen, three Japanese ladies standing outside their restaurants were competing for my custom. The restaurants looked ordinary, and with the greatest respect, so did the ladies. But in Unzen, a 90 minute bus ride from Nagasaki, I was reminded that the ordinary has […]