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A Summer Icy Favorite In The Peaceful Tokyo Suburbs
The summer months in Japan are notoriously hot and humid, but thankfully there are several ways to beat the heat – and some of them are through food!
Kakigori is a shaved ice dessert that comes topped with a variety of syrups and ot...

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Experience Making Everyone's Favourite Rice Cracker
You would be forgiven for thinking that senbei rice crackers were the ninja of Japanese food. Hiding in plain sight in literally every kitchen, store and duty-free shop around the country, senbei are the masters of concealment. If y...

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Enjoy These Limited-Edition Snacks At Various Niigata Stations
If you've headed through Tokyo Station, Narita Airport, or Haneda Airport, it's likely that you've seen Tokyo Bananas on the shelves before. The regular variety of this much-loved snack is a banana-shaped sponge cake, fil...

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JAPAN TIMES
 
Tokyo stocks dipped Friday as market players took to position-squaring ahead of the weekend.
The 225-issue Nikkei average of the Tokyo Stock Exchange shed 27.38 points, or 0.12 percent, to end at 23,619.69. On Thursday, the key index surged 224.25 points to mark the highest finish s...

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INSIDER
 
·  Yomiuriland in Tokyo, Japan has announced that it will be offering an "Amusement Workation" package.
·  Starting at 1,900 yen ($17.94), it is available from October 15 and will allow visitors to work poolside with access to outlets and WiFi.
·  It even includes an hour on the Ferris ...

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A Feeling Of Home
Kanazawa is an incredible city vibrant with culture and life. Much like the nearby Kansai region cities, Kanazawa has many physical reminders of Japan’s past and more traditional elements with temples, entire districts untouched by the war with their classic archite...

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Sake Competition 2019 held in Tokyo
SAKE COMPETITION 2019
Do you know the world’s most delicious Japanese Sake in the world?
Lately Japanese sakes are becoming so popular among non-Japanese people that most of them even know the word “SAKE”. This time we at JapanTravel participated i...

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100 Maidens Dance By Lantern Light At Gokoku Shrine
 
Venue: Gokoku Shrine When: Saturday - May 25th 2019 ,  7:00pm - 9:00pm
Once a year, the spectacle of 100 shrine maidens dancing by lantern light can be seen in the forecourt of Hirohima Gokoku-jinja Shrine.
This is part of the "Ma...

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Experience the Moomin Stories
Venue: Miyazawa, Hanno, Saitama Prefecture 357-0001, Japan When: Saturday - Mar 16th 2019 ,  9:00am - 9:00pm
On March 16, 2019, Saturday, the Moomin Valley Park is finally opening. Metsä Village, the free admission part of the park, opened last November ...

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Where the red spider lilies weave a magical web
Venue: Kinchakuda When: Sep 15th - Sep 30th 2018 ,  9:00am - 4:30pm
For fifty weeks of the year, the town of Koma (one stop past Hanno on the Seibu Ikebukuro line; 50 km from Ikebukuro, Tokyo) could be just about anywhere in rural Japan...

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