Culture Nagasaki Lantern Festival 2026 Feb 6th - Feb 23rd Nagasaki rings in the Chinese New Year with a two week cultural celebration.
Activities Jingu Gaien Ginkgo Festival 2026 Mid Nov - Early Dec This extensive park is famous for its ginkgo trees and their golden leaves... The trees line both sides of a 300-meter-long avenue, forming a golden
Planning Morioka & Fukuoka Make 2023 Travel List Kim Bergström Jan 17, 2023 This week, the New York Times offered their recommendations for 52 places to travel for 2023, with Morioka and Fukuoka making the list.
Culture Kasama Craft Hills Ignatius Koh While Kasama Craft Hills is usually a quiet place, it comes alive during Golden... Week (April 29th to May 5th) when the Kasama-no-Himatsuri pottery festival
Planning Japan's First Sakura Projections for 2026 Kim Bergström Dec 19, 2025 trip to Japan is even vaguely on your radar, some news was released this week... expected to see flowering around March 19th, with full bloom about a week
Planning Yamagata One of Nat Geo's Best Places to Visit in 2026 Kim Bergström Oct 22, 2025 Yamagata Prefecture has been named on National Geographic's Best of the World 2026 list this week, highlighting it as one of the most exciting destinations
16 Activities Best Cherry Blossom Sites in Iwate Malcome Larcens Some area, like Tono, are at their prime a little later during Golden Week
Food Gold Prize Winning Sake Flight Fair 2017 Jun 22nd 2017 Past Event 22 Fukushima Gold Prize winning sake brands from the 2016 sake brewing year’s “Annual Japan Sake Awards” will be available for sampling through 3 set sake