Activities Odate Rose Festival Kim Rose fan? The annual Odate Rose Festival takes place at the Ishida Rose Garden in Akita, and the event showcases around 500 different..
10 Activities Rapeseed Along the Arakawa Kawajima Lynda Hogan Thousands of beautiful rapeseed line the embankments of the Arakawa in the rural town of Kawajima in the Hiki District of Saitama..
Activities Omurozakura at Ninna-ji Temple Kim Each year during spring, Kyoto's Ninna-ji Temple is decorated with the color of various cherry trees in bloom. Among the trees..
Activities Asamai Park Iris Festival Kim Each year from late June through to early July, Akita's Asamai Park is filled to the brim with the color of 600,000 irises in..
Activities The Miyazaki Shrine Forest - Part 4 Alex Scalzitti Would you like to go back in time and see how samurais and their families used to live? If you visit the Miyazaki Shrine Forest,..
Activities Odaiko Hall, Akita Justin Velgus Since 1989 the Odaiko no Yakata, or the "Odaiko Hall" has been pleasing visitors with its display of international drums. It also..
Camping & Trekking Fujimidai Highlands Justin Dart From Fujimidai, a small peak in the shadow of Mt. Ena, on a clear day you can see across the southern Alps to the small triangle..
7 Outdoors Strawberry Farm in Fukuoka Marcella Dita Armilla If you're in Hirogawa, be sure to stop by this wonderful strawberry farm, where you can pick and eat all the strawberries you..