Like this post? Help us by sharing it! With a series of ancient rituals that take place in traditional houses with tatami mat floors and sliding paper doors, the Japanese tea ceremony makes putting the kettle on look primitive. Like this post? Help us by sharing it!
Travellers’ Tales
Susie Chan: Running the Nakasendo Way in Japan
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! Having run countless endurance races and ultra-marathons, just reading Susie Chan’s list of achievements makes us feel like we need a lie down. Earlier this year, she laced up her well-worn shoes in search of Japan’s ancient Nakasendo Way. Like this post? Help us by sharing it!
Hiking in Japan: The Shin-Etsu Trail
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! New year, new you? Thanks to its excellent accessibility from a number of cities such as Tokyo, Kanazawa, and Nagano, the 70km (44 mile) long Shin-Etsu Trail is one of our favourite undiscovered hiking trails and the perfect place to blow away those December cobwebs. Like this […]
Shinkansen in style: Going Gran Class on the bullet train
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! The Japanese don’t do public transport by halves – everything is reliably efficient and immaculately clean, and staff are kind to a fault. Why then, would you upgrade on the bullet train, the epitome of perfect public transport? Tour leader Mark Fujishige goes all out with a trip […]
Tales from a female solo traveller in Japan
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! After weighing up the pros and cons of travelling to Japan alone, Shayna set off for a solo adventure from Boston to Tokyo to spend three weeks in Japan. She lets us in on what it’s really like as a female solo traveller in Japan. Like this […]
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! After weighing up the pros and cons of travelling to Japan alone, Shayna set off for a solo adventure from Boston to Tokyo to spend three weeks in Japan. She lets us in on what it’s really like as a female solo traveller in Japan. Like this […]