It was bound to happen to me at some point, but the way it happened is a bit out of...[ Click to read more ]
We’ve done plenty of articles about places and festivals in and around the Asakusa district, usually reinforcing its position as...[ Click to read more ]
The mobile phone landscape has gone through an almost complete shake-up in the last two years. There are myriad choices...[ Click to read more ]
If you’re visiting Hiroshima or here for a few months, you can probably give this a miss and look for...[ Click to read more ]
Being such a mountainous country, Japan is a fantastic place to go mountain biking. There are excellent spots at which...[ Click to read more ]
Baseball in Japan Nippon Professional Baseball (playing a role similar to the USA’s MLB) consists of two leagues, the Central...[ Click to read more ]
Japan has many mountains to scale and many rock climbing gyms if you want to do supervised climbing or try...[ Click to read more ]
With spring well and truly in full swing and the weather improving day by day, now is a great time...[ Click to read more ]
The Kansai region is a great part of Japan to discover by car. Beyond the big cities Kyoto, Osaka, and...[ Click to read more ]
While the cherry blossom is the flower that tends to dominate the imagination of Japanese botanic appreciation, it is perhaps...[ Click to read more ]