Culture Green Bamboo Lantern Festival 2026 Aug 15th - Aug 16th Every summer, Takahata Town in Yamagata Prefecture hosts the Green Bamboo Lantern Festival, a long-running local event that began..
Culture Dejima Mandy Bartok For over 200 hundred years, the tiny island of Dejima in Nagasaki Harbor was Japan's only point of contact with the wider world...
Historical The Sacred Rocks of Meoto Iwa Chris Glenn South of Ise, just offshore from the village of Futamigaura, are the two symbolic and sacred rocks known as the Meoto Iwa, or "husband..
Culture Akan Ainu Art Week 2026 Mid - Late Oct The Akan Ainu Art Week (AAAW) is a three-week festival celebrating the living culture of the Ainu people through contemporary art...
Culture Akamonkai Japanese Language School Featured Akamonkai is a Japanese language school in Tokyo, Japan. To date, they have educated more than 20,000 graduates from over 80 countries...
11 Historical Kintai Bridge and Iwakuni Castle Ben Beechey Iwakuni city (岩国市) is located in Yamaguchi-ken. It was formerly a castle town that belonged to the warrior Lord Hiroie Kikk..
Culture Kamikura Shrine Kamikura Shrine (神倉神社, Kamikura Jinja) is related to the Hayatama Taisha Shrine and can be found on top of a hill of 538 stone steps, some as st..
Culture Jomon: Japan's 20th UNESCO Heritage Serena Ogawa Jun 7, 2021 Seventeen ancient sites spanning four prefectures—Hokkaido, Aomori, Iwate, and Akita—are slated to be added to the UNESCO Worl..