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Japanese New Year – Knoxville
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...
Osaka EXPO 2025 Is Here!
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...
Record Number of Tourists For 2024
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...
The Most Beautiful Garden in Japan
Japan is well known for its amazing gardens. There are several types that follow different criteria and one of the finest, yet most overlooked is the Adachi Gardens and Museum just outside the town of Matsue. Matsue is located on the Sea of Japan on the southwestern...
An Excellent Day Trip From Hiroshima
Hiroshima is one of the more popular destinations in Japan, and for good reason. Of course there's its unique history with the atomic bomb drop on August 5, 1945 which is memorialized at the Hiroshima Peace Park and Atomic Bomb Dome. Then there's the iconic...
The Best Open Air Museum in Tokyo?
We recently discovered the Edo Tokyo Open Air Architectural Museum on the edge of Tokyo. It was an exceptionally nice find. If you have only one day or two in Tokyo and want to get a true sense of its history through its architecture and culture, then you simply...
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