8 Entertainment Harajuku Style Chris Barnes If you want to experience teenage culture at its most extreme, then visit Harajuku station and its surrounds on a sunday when young..
Culture My Favorite Cities of Japan: Yokohama Elena Lisina Yokohama has its own unique spirit and the face of a futuristic city. It’s one of the most loved places among Japanese for wee..
Culture Penchant for Pottery: Tobeyaki Bronwyn O'Neill A Traditional Ceramics Craft Workshop in Tobe, Ehime
Historical Shinobu Mottling Rock, Fukushima Stephanie Marley Visit Shinobu, a village rich with the history of poetry, fern-mottled kimono, and impossible love.
12 Temples & Shrines Kyoto Rokkaku-do Temple Tomoko Kamishima Kyoto: Rokkaku-do Temple is a hexagonal pagoda in the middle of the city.
7 Gardens & Parks The Waka Poetry Garden - Rikugien Joe Peters Almost 88,000 square meters of a strolling, mountain, and pond garden makes a great place to spend a sunny couple of hours. Enjoy..
10 Culture Fukuju-In Temple in Tokyo Peter Sidell In the Nakano district west of Shinjuku in central Tokyo, Fukuju-In is a peaceful Buddhist temple with some interesting features...
Traditional Koto Performance Reynald Ventura This is a six-minute film of a koto performance by Fusako Watanabe.