For a totally Japan off the beaten path outing, you should visit Tokyo’s “G-Cans”, officially known as The Metropolitan Area Outer Underground Discharge Channel. This is so unique that most locals don’t even know about it, and much less that you can actually tour the...
About 50 minutes outside Nagoya is one incredible outdoor museum. Situated on more than 200 acres of beautifully landscaped rolling hills overlooking a large lake is the Meiji Mura or “village”. This property features more than 70 structures from the Meiji Era which...
Today, we received a comment from the guys of "Roast Apple" a German based Indie-Pop band letting us know they will be performing two nightly concerts at the German Pavilion at Osaka Expo 2025 the nights from April 22nd to April 26th. Not being familiar with them,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
During December, the larger cities of Japan go all out when it comes to Christmas lights. Over here, they call them Winter Illuminations and generally run from mid November through mid January. Some of them, such as those of Nabana no Sato run into Spring. Its an...