by john | Post #49 | Mar 13, 2025 | Restaurants, Uncategorized
Its all over social media these days…….the $19 Japanese strawberry being sold at upscale grocer Erewhon in Los Angeles. Japan is no stranger to high priced fruits. When we are traveling throughout the country, we often seen $10, $20 and $30 melons and...
by john | Post #48 | Feb 1, 2025 | Nagoya
In early April, Nagoya will host the Formula 1 Grand Prix at the Suzuka Circuit. This is the only Formula 1 event in Japan and happens once a year. We just posted a new video on the event along with some of the many other amazing things to do while in Nagoya other...
by john | Post #47 | Jan 27, 2025 | Cities
This past weekend, we were invited to present Uncharted Japan at the annual Japanese New Year event hosted by the Japan Outreach Initiative in Knoxville, TN. JOI is a cross cultural program of the Japanese government to increase knowledge of Japanese culture in the...
by john | Post #46 | Jan 18, 2025 | Osaka
This will be the biggest event in all of Japan in 2025. Its Osaka Expo 2025 and it has been twenty years since the last time an expo was held in Japan, and likely another twenty years till the next. Therefore, if you are visiting Japan, you simply must include a...
by john | Post #45 | Jan 15, 2025 | Cities
The Japan National Tourism Organization announced this week that Japan saw a record number of foreign tourists visiting Japan in 2024. For the year just ended, approximately 36.8 million foreigners came to Japan, and it sometimes feels as if they are all in Kyoto at...