Beauty & Spa Bathing at Tarutama Onsen Mandy Bartok For a soak in the wilds of the Mt Aso region, try bathing at Tarutama Onsen.
Food Kaiseki at Senjuan Mandy Bartok You can find delicious kaiseki cuisine at ridiculously affordable prices in the out-of-the-way restaurant of Senjuan
Activities Kayaking in Soyo Gorge Yui Yamaguchi Soyo Gorge is the dividing line between Kumamoto and Miyazaki. All you can hear is the birds' tweeting and your paddling.
7 Arao Rice Planting Festival in Photos Mandy Bartok Kick off the rice planting season in Kyushu at the Arao Rice Planting Festival.
11 Nostalgia for the Western Sea Takako Sakamoto Nostalgic Amakusa Islands in the western sea never cease to draw me back again and again.
Food Pain au Levain Mandy Bartok Pain au Levain is arguably one of Kumamoto's best bakeries, tucked out in the eastern part of the city just off the Kyushu expressway...
11 Mt. Takagi in Late Winter Tristan Scholze Mt. Takagi in late winter makes for a pleasant drive or stroll among the grassy mountainsides of Aso's volcano caldera. In..