Japan Culture Guide
Spend a liberating day in the tea fields of Wazuka, an original Japanese landscape
Theme: Tea fields, Green tea, History 1. Overview Wazuka-town and Kasagi-town in the southern part of Kyoto Prefecture are introduced as...
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Japan Culture Guide
- Sep 21
- 2 min
A casual Geisha experience in Hachioji, the suburbs of Tokyo where the geisha district still remains
Theme: Geisha, Ramen noodles 1. Overview Affordable and easy to book are the geisha of Hachioji. Hachioji is a core city in western Tokyo...
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Japan Culture Guide
- Sep 14
- 2 min
Iga, the home of the NINJA. Walking the streets of comfortable little Kyoto
Theme: NINJA, little Kyoto, Ceramics 1. Overview Iga City, Mie Prefecture, is introduced as a place to visit where you can avoid the...
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Japan Culture Guide
- Sep 7
- 3 min
A hidden spot behind a huge museum where you can experience Japanese culture in tranquility
Theme: Japanese cuisine, ZEN, Japanese Garden 1. Overview One of the largest museums in Japan, the Tokyo National Museum in Ueno, is a...
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Japan Culture Guide
- Sep 1
- 3 min
Just a short distance from Kyoto. Hikone is the town of the once-in-a-lifetime tea ceremony.
Theme: Samurai, Tea Ceremony, Religious Faith 1. Overview Hikone City in Shiga Prefecture is first introduced as a place to visit where...
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Japan Culture Guide
- Aug 30
- 2 min
Over-Tourism
Inbound tourists from this spring have returned sharply. That's good news for the travel industry, which has gone through three years of...
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Japan Culture Guide
- Sep 8, 2022
- 1 min
Honesty doesn't pay?
(Reprinted from my Facebook page) Japan's inbound tourism market is confusing now. There is a lot of wrongs and misleading information...
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Japan Culture Guide
- Jun 2, 2022
- 1 min
Can I travel to Japan?
Last week, our government announced that foreign tourists who visit Japan on 'package tours' arranged by some Japanese travel agencies...
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Japan Culture Guide
- Oct 28, 2021
- 1 min
Shibuya SKY observation deck
Shibuya is one of the most crowded and busiest towns in Tokyo. It has one of the most exciting observation decks as well. Shibuya SKY,...
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Japan Culture Guide
- Oct 15, 2021
- 1 min
Tokyo's lost temple - Kokubunji
In the 8th century, an area of Tokyo belonged to the “district of Musashi,” a distant eastern region from the capital. The government was...
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Japan Culture Guide
- Aug 14, 2021
- 3 min
Tokyo 2020 Olympics retrospective
The Tokyo Olympics have come to an end. It was an unfortunate tournament that had been postponed for one year due to coronavirus, and...
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Japan Culture Guide
- Jul 16, 2021
- 1 min
Japanese pop culture - Pokémon stamps
I walked to the nearest post office to purchase stamps for my letter the other day. Now the postage for a sealed letter is Yen84, so I...
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Japan Culture Guide
- Apr 30, 2021
- 1 min
Spring Flowers
It’s already the end of April. It usually is an azalea’s peak season, but it has already finished because of the warm weather this year....
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Japan Culture Guide
- Mar 20, 2021
- 1 min
Cherry blossoms season has started!
The Meteorological Agency declared the start of cherry blossoms blooming in Tokyo this week. Last year the health crisis started in the...
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Japan Culture Guide
- Mar 15, 2021
- 1 min
My first Android app released!
Since the Covid-19 crisis began, I spent a tremendous amount of time at home, so I needed to find an indoor activity. I chose mobile app...
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Japan Culture Guide
- Oct 24, 2020
- 1 min
Visit Miyazaki, an ancient province
Though international travel is still impossible due to the Covid-19 pandemic, domestic travel inside Japan is activated by the...
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Japan Culture Guide
- Aug 4, 2020
- 1 min
Rainy season ends, hot summer starts!
Japan's rainy season is usually in June-July for 40 days, but it was longer by ten days, and the total precipitation was much more...
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Japan Culture Guide
- Jun 19, 2020
- 1 min
Japan to stay in bubble with 4 countries first
Today the Japanese government announced that they raised the economic activities level by lifting the restriction on moving between...
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Japan Culture Guide
- May 27, 2020
- 1 min
Tokyo resumed its economic activities
The “soft lockdown” in Tokyo was lifted yesterday, and the city started to move forward slowly. Today a Japanese garden called “Higo...
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Japan Culture Guide
- Mar 1, 2020
- 2 min
Current Tokyo’s real situation
As you already knew, COVID-19 is now spreading from Wuhan, China to other countries all over the world. Japan is one of them. The number...
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