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Art At Your Feet: Japan's Beautiful Manhole Covers
Instead of always looking off into the distance to find beautiful scenery in Japan, try looking at your feet! Many Japanese cities, towns, and vil...

Japanese Game Centers
You can now make good on all of your threats to flip the table thanks to arcades in Japan. Arcades are commo...

Echigo-Tsumari Winter 2016
Every winter the region of Echigo-Tsumari gets up to three meters of snow. That’s just shy of ten f...

Manga Jizo
Do you dream of becoming a manga artist? If so, there's someone you should visit who might just give y...

What is the Echigo-Tsumari
Triennale?
Giant metal flowers usually don’t come to mind when you think of farming, and yet there it is. It si...

Four Differences Between Japanese Temples and Shrines
Japan is home to countless shrines and temples. In just the city of Kyoto alone the estimated combined to...