Arts & Crafts Uncovering Chiba Prefecture’s Sake Legacy Featured Literally meaning "sake well", the small town in Chiba Prefecture was named Shisui after a local legend that said that sake gushed..
10 Museums Hakone Museum of Art, Garden Tomoko Kamishima The moss garden of the Hakone Museum of Art becomes a hidden paradise in mid-November. 130 kinds of moss cover the garden, showing..
Traditional Koto Performance Reynald Ventura This is a six-minute film of a koto performance by Fusako Watanabe.
15 Museums Avenue to the Art Museum, Kure Ciara Long One of Japan's "one hundred most beautiful streets", one of only two in Hiroshima Prefecture, located in Kure City.
Arts & Crafts Meet a Traditional Lacquerware Craftswoman Yoshi Hirasawa Toshiko Noda is a traditional lacquerware craftswoman based in Kanagawa, Japan. Kosaku Noda became her teacher and later her husband...
8 Museums Mother and Child Museum on Omishima Anonymous The Ken Iwata Mother and Child Museum on Omishima is a very strange art gallery. It’s a ring of whitewashed concrete open to t..
13 Arts & Crafts Food Replica Making Experience Haruka Saijo Riki is a synthetic food shop that offers some exciting food replica making sessions.