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Improve Your Luck at These Seven Kyoto Shrines

Improve Your Luck at These Seven Kyoto Shrines

Kyoto is home to an incredible number of temples and shrines. According to a survey conducted by Kyoto Prefecture in 2015, there are currently aro...

10 Cool Kitchen Tools from 100 Yen Shop Daiso

10 Cool Kitchen Tools from 100 Yen Shop DAISO

The next time you need some kitchen supplies, head to your nearest DAISO 100 yen shop! You'd be surpr...

A One-Day Walking Guide to the Higashiyama Area and Gion

A One-Day Walking Guide to the Higashiyama Area and Gion

It's easy to spend an entire day exploring the beautiful area known as Higashiyama. To give you an id...

5 Must-Have Useful Souvenirs from DAISO

5 Useful Gadgets from 100 Yen Shop DAISO

Don't let the cheap prices fool you; they sell some pretty awesome stuff at popular 100 yen shop DAIS...

Japanese Stationery at LOFT

Japanese Stationery at LOFT

For anyone who's even slightly obsessed with stationery (or knows someone who is!), a trip to Shibu...

Bicycle Rentals at tokyobike

Bicycle Rentals at tokyobike

Located less than a 10 minute walk from both JR Nippori and Metro Sendagi Stations, tokyobike offers tre...

Niku Yokocho: a Meat Lover's Paradise in Shibuya

Niku Yokocho: a Meat Lover's Paradise in Shibuya

Shibuya. The name brings to mind the statue of a famously faithful dog and the controlled chaos of the &ld...

Shikoku's 88 Temple Pilgrimage

Shikoku's 88 Temple Pilgrimage

by guest writer Mitul PatelReasons vary as to why people embark on this grueling 1,200km / 750mi. 88 Temp...

Popular Japanese Souvenir: Ashirila Sheet

Popular Japanese Souvenir: Ashirila Sheet

Traveling in Japan is great, but spending an entire day walking around sightseeing and shopping can rea...

Kappabashi Kitchenware Town: where foodies who love to cook go to shop

Kappabashi Kitchenware Town: Where Foodies Who Love to Cook Go to Shop

From high-quality kitchen knives to shockingly realistic food samples, Kappabashi Kitchenware Town...

Yanesen hotel: hanare

hanare: a unique hotel in a Tokyo shitamachi

For anyone who's interested in experiencing life like a local in one of Tokyo’s shitamachi o...