Activities Akita Port Tower Selion Hitoshi Kawai Enjoy views from the mountains to the city, port and the sea from this tower hovering higher than any building in Akita.
Shopping Kyoto Rakushikan Bonson Lam Feel and breathe the culture of washi, Japanese living paper. A four level museum and emporium of washi where you can experience..
Culture Sankyo Rice Warehouses Alena Eckelmann The heritage of Sakata City in Yamagata Prefecture tells the stories of rich rice merchants and of poor day laborers in rice warehouses...
Culture On the Movie Set of “Okuribito” Alena Eckelmann "Okuribito" (Departures) won the Best Foreign Language Oscar in 2009. The main movie set, the NK Agent's office, is now open..
Food Kometarou Restaurant, Minami Uonuma [Closed] Rufus Starbuck Rice cooked in the traditional way at Kometarou Restaurant in Ishiuchi/Shiozawa. The restaurant is an old farmhouse that maintains..
Food Gottsui Okonomiyaki [Closed] Karin Wu Gottsui Gotanda offers many different foods cooked on a teppan - an iron hotplate. Try delicious okonomiyaki, yakisoba, and other..
Accommodation Farm Takanawa Club, Atami [Closed] Featured Farm Takanawa Club’s beautiful hotel in the hills above Atami is a great escape from Tokyo. The facilities, food and setting a..
Food Kanazawa Hakkei’s Chiyomoto [Closed] Tomoko Kamishima Chiyomoto is an old Japanese restaurant that regularly showed up in Hiroshige’s prints and then later in the photos of Italian..