In Iinan, Shimane Prefecture, artisans hand-craft the giant sacred rope for Izumo Taisha Shrine’s main hall. It is one of Japan’s largest shimenawa, remade roughly every seven years by a community ...

Tokyo Islands Explorer, a multilingual booking platform for the Izu Islands, launched on July 9, 2026. The site combines ...

เปิดตัว "Tokyo Islands Explorer" บริการจองที่รองรับหลายภาษาสำหรับนักท่องเที่ยวต่างชาติอย่างเป็นทางการ ครอบคลุมการจองที่พัก ...

SATOYAMA SPIRITS TOKYO, a bar that distills the botanical scents of Japan’s traditional countryside into cocktails,opened recently in Tokyo’s Ebisu district.

As I walked toward the center of the cascading waterfalls, severe coldness gripped my feet, and the rhythmic chants of a Shinto priest disappeared under the sounds of torrents pounding the rocky ...

Mt. Fuji is a frequent sight from many locations in Hayama, including across the Sagami Bay from Isshiki Beach. Hayama is described in the town's official guidebook as a place where "where the sea and ...

For the next thousand years, Japanese paper folding was largely restricted to religious ceremonial use, as paper was expensive. However, paper-making was one of the many industries that flourished ...

Full of history and natural beauty, Etajima is the perfect seaside getaway. (Photo courtesy of Regional Branding Institute Co., Ltd.) Easily reached by ferry from Hiroshima Port or by road via the ...

https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%BA%90%E6%B0%8F Japanese commoners had no official surnames all the way until the Meiji Restoration (1868), meaning the acquisition ...

Hamura City, along the middle reaches of the Tama River, is a compact municipality where people and water systems have long coexisted—and where diverse wildlife and human life still share the ...

Tales of the samurai are synonymous with swordsmen around the world, but in fact some of Japan’s most celebrated warriors were women. Technically, women couldn’t become samurai. But samurai was a ...

The Tokugawa maintained their grip on Japan for 250 years by keeping tight control over all of society, including class structure, internal migration and, of course, the local lords. While regional ...