Activities A Closer Look at Tohoku Christophe Audisio The Golden Hall, dating from the 1100s, is a wooden structure splendidly... covered by gold leaf and mother-of-pearl, and unusually holds the mummified
Activities Nanrakuen Sotobori Sakura Festival Kim Bergström Each year from around late March through to late April, Ehime's Nanrakuen Garden is home to a cherry blossom festival that celebrates the beauty of the
Culture Tachikawa Sansan Illuminations 2026-2027 Early Nov - Mid Jan Illuminations are one of the trademark events of the colder months in Japan, and you'll find a plethora of them to check out across Tokyo.
9 The Arrival of Spring Takako Sakamoto Japanese garden inside Osaka Expo Commemoration Park: the brilliant spring flowers in this Japanese garden always inform me of spring's arrival.
Culture Enjoying the Adachi Museum of Art Kim Bergström The dry landscape garden is the museum's pièce de résistance, and changes... Aside from the dry landscape garden, there is plenty of other greenery
Culture Itabashi City Ward - Parks & Gardens Sleiman Azizi Akatsuka Botanical Gardens turns out to be Tokyo's first municipal garden... It also serves as the entrance to the Man'yo Garden, a garden named
12 Culture Statues and carvings of Yanaka Peter Sidell find statues of many shapes and sizes, from tiny cute babies to the big golden
Culture Yume Kukan Luxury Carriages Sleiman Azizi when shopping in Shin Misato and for train aficionados, are an exciting peek