10 Culture Kamakura Camera - Snow at Tsurugaoka Hachimangu Shrine Peter Oxley chanced across an elderly man in the precincts of Hasedera temple who told me... Ahead of me was the Taiko-bashii, the drum bridge over which only the shogun
Accommodation Hotel City Plaza Osaka Elena Lisina To me, the most attractive feature of the Hotel City Plaza Osaka is their... enjoy these individual open-air baths as indoor baths are too hot for me
Shopping Japanese Convenience Stores Elena Lisina A Japanese friend of mine advised me to go to a ‘combini’ store, as Japanese... always buy a bottle of water or green tea in the morning and take it with me
9 Spring Breeze of Azumino Takako Sakamoto On the 20th of April in 2012, the spring breeze of Azumino hypnotized me... , and made me feel like staying and relaxing here forever.
Culture Karasu, the Divine Messenger Elena Lisina This surprised me as in my country, the sound of a crow is more like a... My Japanese friend told me that in Japan a crow, or karasu, is considered
12 Culture Rural Charms Reynald Ventura This image was touching; the desolation and melancholy attracted me.... The feelings of solitude, melancholy, and impermanence struck me.
13 Accommodation Hotel Amsterdam at Huis Ten Bosch Takako Sakamoto During my stay, the only things that reminded me of the fact that I was... in Japan were the celebration sake offered to me in the hotel lobby and
Food Budouka Ramen Waseda Joseph Bautista that was the contraction for “irrashaimasei”, but my experience told me... The ramen master helped a lot as he was watching me struggle to read the