Activities & Attractions Monet’s Pond: A Hidden Pond So Beautiful That It Looks Like A Classical Painting If art museums are too boring for you, head down to Monet's Pond in Gifu Prefecture to admire a classical painting IRL.
Activities & Attractions Goryokaku Park: A Star-Shaped Park With Sakura Trees That Was A Fort During The Battle of Hakodate Witness the celestial beauty of the star-shaped Goryokaku Park and learn about its not-so-beautiful past while admiring the sakura flowers.
Activities & Attractions 8 Traditional Japanese Towns That Will Transport You Back In Time, Besides Kyoto’s Gion District From well-preserved merchant districts to quaint fishing villages, take a trip back in time with these charming traditional Japanese towns.
Activities & Attractions 10 Unusual Shrines In Japan That Aren’t Too Tourist-y, Unlike Meiji-jingu & Fushimi Inari Taisha If you've ticked the famed Fushimi Inari Shrine off your bucket list, check out these unusual shrines in Japan that are off the beaten path.
Food Guides Sacchan Yatai: 1 Of The Last Old-School Mobile Ramen Carts In Tokyo To Get Your Late-Night Craving Fix Get your ramen fix at Sacchan Yatai, a long-standing mobile cart helmed by a 78-year-old, after a night of drinking in Tokyo.
Activities & Attractions Book And Bed Tokyo Shinsaibashi: A Capsule Hotel Where You Can Sleep In A Bookshelf Book and Bed Tokyo Shinsaibashi is a capsule hotel where you can stay overnight in bookshelves and lose yourself in books for up to hours.
Culture Naki Sumo Baby Crying Contest: Giant Sumo Wrestlers Compete To Make Tiny Babies Wail You've seen sumo wrestlers push with sheer might to clock up a win, now watch them get babies to cry in the Naki Sumo Baby Crying Contest.
Food Guides Neko Neko Shokupan: Japanese Bakery Chain Selling Adorable & Fluffy “Breeds” Of Cat-Shaped Bread Swop out your plain square-shaped toasts with these fluffy cat-shaped shokupan loaves from Neko Neko Shokupan, a bakery chain in Japan.
Activities & Attractions Diorama Restaurant Tetsudokan: Diner With Railway Diorama That Lets Cats Roam Around & Wreak Havoc Model trains aren't the only things running through miniature railways in Diorama Restaurant Tetsudokan - cats run amok and wreak havoc here.
Activities & Attractions Tozan Shrine: A 363-Year-Old Shrine In Arita Famed For Its Porcelain Torii Gate Located in Arita, the birthplace of Japanese porcelain, Tozan Shrine has a unique torii gate that's made out of porcelain.