Royal Hotel Co., Ltd. has announced plans to open Noir by RIHGA Kobe Arima, a new hot spring resort under the Noir by RIHGA ...

Online travel agency Booking.com has released its list of ten “Travel Predictions” for 2026. Based on a survey of around ...

For residents and visitors to Tokyo, the closest isle worthy of the Cat Island designation lies in Kanagawa Prefecture, the capital’s neighbor to the south. Enoshima, which can be accessed from a ...

Yes, that’s right. Bear attacks and encounters were such a popular news item in the Land of the Rising Sun last year, it was almost comparable to COVID-19 and Trump updates. Bear encounters have been ...

Tales of the samurai are synonymous with swordsmen around the world, but in fact some of Japan’s most celebrated warriors were women. Technically, women couldn’t become samurai. But samurai was a ...

Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura, or Yoshitsune and the Thousand Cherry Trees, began as puppet theater, but was adapted to kabuki a year later in 1748. Often simply called Yoshitsune, the play is based on the ...

There are many different kinds of otsumami. One of the more popular choices is kara-age (から揚げ), which resembles fried chicken—a must when drinking beer! But by far the most popular (and healthiest) ...

All photos provided by Victoria Yoshimura. Victoria answered a few questions for us about life at Shonenji, her family’s 450-year-old Pure Land Buddhist temple, and Shonenji Lodge, her temple-adjacent ...

In Part 1 of this series, we look at useful concepts that underlie space-efficient Japanese home design. These are not intended to give your home a “Japanese” style, though many of the concepts are ...

无论是来过日本、还是看过日剧的小伙伴，都可能会发现，日本生活中常出现一种很神奇的机器。 向机器中投入几枚日元硬币，转动机器旁的旋钮，伴随着两声“咔嚓”、“咔嚓”，就会有一颗 ...

前陣子在雜誌上看到攝影藝術家杉本博司將在清春藝術村「光美術館（光の美術館）」中展出的消息，展出期間正值孩子們進入暑假，於是便著手策畫一趟兼具大人喜歡的美術館、咖啡店，同 ...

The Tokugawa maintained their grip on Japan for 250 years by keeping tight control over all of society, including class structure, internal migration and, of course, the local lords. While regional ...