Transportation 5 of Japan's Best Highway Rest Areas Kim Bergström If you're planning a road trip for part of your Japan travel adventures in the future, it's likely you'll need to plan out places to stop to refuel, stretch
Culture Sapporo August Festival 2026 Late Jul festival is known for its giant patchwork furoshiki cloths spread across the plaza
6 Food Yabusaki-en Premium Tea Experience Samuel Richards Around three weeks prior to harvesting the leaves, the tea plants get covered... This is to shield the plants from the strong sunshine, resulting in the
6 Culture Izu Shaboten Zoo Lily Shizuoka Prefecture, visitors can find more than 1,500 individual cacti plants... The plants on display give a good glimpse into the world of cacti.
7 Culture Tea Ceremony at Souunji Temple Steve Morton for ‘Lake Ashi-no-ko’, Hakone-Yumoto Station is perhaps one of the last places... Although there are now an ever growing number of places offering ‘Sado’
Activities Tokyo’s Treasure Islands Featured While nearly two-thirds of those surveyed typically think of Okinawa when... created by steam explosions from a volcano—this is one of two of the major places
Culture The Origin of the Tea Ceremony Gary Luscombe We will also explore some of the more off the beaten path places central to the development of this fascinating zen art.
Activities Pool WAI Kim Bergström With the temperatures warming up, Tokyoites may be wondering about the best places in the prefecture to cool off during the hot and humid summer months