9 Culture Shinjuku Gyoen in Full Bloom Nicole Bauer I love Shinjuku Gyoen in Tokyo at any time of the year, but the cherry blossom season is certainly a highlight.
10 Culture Shinjuku Gyoen - Cherry Blossoms Susan Tumanon Another popular cherry blossom spot is the Shinjuku Gyoen. The park grounds are spacious and Japanese garden landscapes are beautiful...
Activities Mother Bokujo Farm Experience Featured Want to milk a cow? Cuddle rabbits and guinea pigs? Race squealing piglets? Mother Farm (aka Mother Bokujo) in Chiba is the place..
Culture Shinobu Mottling Rock, Fukushima Stephanie Marley Visit Shinobu, a village rich with the history of poetry, fern-mottled kimono, and impossible love.
Activities Cape Shionomisaki Alena Eckelmann The Kuroshio Current streams by Cape Shiono-misaki, Honshu's most southern point. Japan's most northern coral reefs are..
6 Nightlife Kita Horie and Yotsubashi Bonson Lam Experience Osaka Shinsaibashi's genteel Upper West side at Kita Horie, home to expatriates and twenty and thirty somethings..
12 Culture Witness a Japanese Wedding Photo Spot: Kanda Myojin... Larry Knipfing The land it occupies is some of the most expensive in Japan, but Kanda Myojin still somehow feels like a friendly neighborhood shrine,..
9 Culture Kannon-zaki Lighthouse Tomoko Kamishima Cape Kannon-zaki is on the eastern edge of Miura Peninsula, the entrance of the Tokyo Bay. In 1869, a lighthouse was built here