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...
On our recent trip to Japan, we took along with us some goodies from back home. Near to where we live is a special bakery, Go-Go's Cinnamon Rolls owned by Wendy Lewis. Our son absolutely loves her cinnamon rolls so much that he's having them served at his upcoming...
Many years ago, there were numerous villages along the route from Kyoto to what was then called Edo, today being Tokyo. They were called “Post Towns”, and were generally used as stopping points for travelers to rest and resupply. They were also checkpoints whereby...
The Uncharted Japan website is little more than a month old and the first video (on Takayama) on the Youtube Channel was posted two weeks ago, therefore though we have a great deal of experience in getting around Japan, the platform of Youtube is something quite...
Most foreign visitors stick to the well known tourist sites and seldom leave the worn paths leading to them. If you do that, you'll certainly have an enjoyable time in Japan, however, you'll also be missing out on so much more. You don't have to venture far into the...
Just about every sizable city in Japan has an observation platform or deck positioned on top of a skyscraper or tower. Its something the Japanese love: looking down on the world below from up on high. Each one is unique, but most are very similar and beyond the...