Activities Echigo Hillside Park Tulip Festival Kim Bergström Nagaoka's Echigo Hillside Park is home to an annual tulip festival, which showcases early, mid, and late-blooming tulips in..
Activities Nishiyama Park Azalea Festival Kim Bergström The Nishiyama Park Azalea Festival is an annual event held in early May, where around 50,000 azaleas bloom in various shades of..
Accommodation Yamaura Stay Nannini Cristina Perched in the foothills of the Yatsugatake Mountains in Nagano is Yamaura, a lovely rural area that looks straight of an old Japanese..
Activities Oagata Shrine Plum Festival 2026 Mid Feb - Mid Mar Aichi's Oagata Shrine is home to a plum grove with over 300 weeping trees in shades of red, pink, and white. Each year a plum..
Culture Kawazu Heian Buddha Statue Pavilion Peter Sidell This small museum in Kawazu, on the Izu Peninsula in central Japan's Shizuoka prefecture, is home to wooden Buddhist statues..
Food Michi no Eki Izu-tsukigase Sherilyn Siy Michi no eki Izu-tsukigase's main building boasts of a seating area that is naturally well lit by floor-to-ceiling glass windows..
Culture Matto Furusato-kan in Ishikawa Peter Sidell In Matto, a suburb of Kanazawa in Japan's Ishikawa prefecture, Furusato-kan is a beautifully restored historical residence,..
Activities Thomas Land Christmas 2025 Early Nov - Late Dec From early November to late December, the Fuji-Q Highland amusement park will host a fun Thomas Land Christmas event. The event..
