- Taste and Discover Local Chiba Sake in Matsudo City
- Several times a year, the Matsudo Tourism Information Center organises a free Japanese sake tasting event featuring local sake from Chiba prefecture.
- Matsudo: Discovering the Unexpected Charms of a Tokyo Suburb City
- In the eyes of the average Tokyoite, the city of Matsudo is a convenient place to live in, with affordable housing and a relatively short and easy com
- Visit a 300-Year-Old Sake Brewery Near Tokyo
- After learning that I could visit a real sake brewery near Tokyo, I was feeling pretty excited. I had only visited one sake brewery several years ago,
- 5 Tips for Making the Most of BeerFes Yokohama, Japan’s Largest Beer Festival
- Over the course of a decade, I’ve watched (and enjoyed) the rise in popularity of craft and import beers in Japan. When I first moved to Tokyo, I coul
- Akigawa Valley: Waterfalls, Local Food & Hot Springs in Tokyo’s Countryside
- If you are looking for a short excursion outside the big city, how about going on a daytrip to the Akigawa valley? This little-known area West of Toky
- 5 Tokyo Limited Express Trains for Going Off the Beaten Track
- If you have been to all the sights outlined in the previous article on Limited Express trains running from Tokyo, then this article is for you. Here a
- Five Limited Express Trains for Exploring Areas Outside Tokyo
- Did you know that the Shinkansen isn’t the only way to reach areas outside Tokyo quickly and comfortably? Limited Express trains can sometimes be the
- The Chichibu-Tama-Kai National Park: Nature and Hiking at Tokyo’s Doorstep
- The Chichibu-Tama-Kai National Park, located just West of Tokyo, is a vast recreational area for outdoor enthusiasts of all kinds. Although hiking is
- 3 Mountain Lodges for New Year’s Eve and the First Sunrise of 2019
- Although I prefer to go on day trips, I do enjoy staying the night of December 31st in a mountain hut and taking part in the tradition of “hatsuhinode
- Sagamiko Illumillion: Experience One of Japan’s Most Spectacular Winter Illumination Events
- With a seemingly endless number of holiday illumination displays throughout the city, Tokyo has no shortage of holiday cheer. There are fantastic ligh
- 3 Amazing Autumn Day Trips from Shinjuku
- Although there are plenty of opportunities to enjoy fall colors in Shinjuku, nothing beats getting out into nature and strolling or hiking below a ca
- Take a trip to the Edo period. Kawagoe City!
- Most of the old Japanese scenery was burned to the ground during WWII, which makes Kawagoe valuable as one of the only cities to have maintained its h
- Take your sweet time in Kawagoe Candy Alley!
- Kawagoe Candy Alley has maintained more than twenty of its retro confectionery stores since the Meiji period. Cheap, colorful, and delicious sweets li
- Experience the Edo period, one hour from Tokyo!
- Do you have a little extra time during your visit to Tokyo? Looking for a place to immerse yourself in Japanese landscapes, but don’t have enough ti
- A Flower park chosen as one of the top 10 dream destinations in the world!
- Ashikaga Flower Park is suggested by CNN as being identical to the spiritual Tree of Souls in the movie, “Avatar”. There’s a large, 150-year-old wiste