I often marvel at the creative minds that come up with a design...
Japan
Every first timer to Japan should see Tokyo and Kyoto, and for good...
I first heard of the Shimanami Kaido while staying in the town of...
As a travel writer and the author of guides to Japan for several...
If I could time travel, I probably wouldn’t choose Japan during the late...
If you’ve visited Buddhist temples in Japan, chances are you passed through their...
As the author of Frommer’s guides to Japan for many years, I’ve inspected...
The first time I participated in Zen meditation, at a 1980s retreat...
I became enamored of Frank Lloyd Wright in the 1980s, while living in...
I was living in Tokyo in the 1980s when the Japanese Ministry of...
You can whip between Kyoto and Hiroshima in less than two hours on...
People always ask which Japanese city is the most important to visit, and...
The world of Japanese sake is so huge, that learning about the famous...
Nothing heralds the birth of spring more joyously than Japan’s cherry trees. Bursting...
You can zip between Tokyo and Kyoto on the Shinkansen bullet train in...
The first time I saw a woman cooling herself with a Japanese folding...
I first went to Japan to write some travel articles and ended up...
Most of Japan’s history–skirmishes and wars between feudal lords, legends surrounding ancestors of...
Every city changes with the passage of time, but it’s hard to imagine...
There’s never been an Olympics like this one. Delayed a year because of...
I don’t know how many times I’ve returned to Kakunodate over the...
As a travel writer specializing in Japan, I know I can never match...
When I first came to Tokyo in the mid 1980s, I stayed with...
Nine years have passed since Japan’s northeastern coast was hit by a <a...
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