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Capture The City When The Sun Goes Down
A huge city like Tokyo has a lot of places to discover. During the night, the city reveals secrets to those willing to explore the streets on foot. For those you would like to discover the beauty that Tokyo can offer after the sun sets, we ad...

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A Street in Kawagoe City Selling Nostalgic Sweets
Suzuki Tozaemon, born and raised in Tokyo, started making simple sweets at the start of the Meiji Period. This sweets shop, which still stands today, can be find in Penny Candy Alley (Kashiya Yokocho) in Kawagoe City.
 
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 Meet Bats and Snakes in The Slippery Dark
If you take a turning off the main road in the sprawling village of Shirokawa, and head up over a hilltop pass and into another valley, you find yourself in a small hamlet with a car park next to a river. Nearby is a locked doorway into t...

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 An Excursion To a Land Of Poets and Dragons
For a peninsula that has drawn poets and writers like Izumi Shikibu, Amanohashidate is surprisingly quiet. While the sand spit lined with an avenue of pine trees is the star attraction, there is another side to Amanohashidate, one that ...

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 Delicious, Muslim-Friendly and Japanese Brand
Looking for senbei (Japanese rice crackers), instant ramen (Japanese noodles) or Japanese green tea chocolate, but with the Halal mark on it? It's easy to find now. You can find them at Laox Store in a popular area of Central Tokyo, Sh...

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In recent months, Kumamoto's Mt Aso volcano has been quite active, spilling out small clouds of ash on a nearly daily basis. If you want to get a view of the action without getting too close to the crater, grab a seat at Cafe Prunier, a rural coffee house on the southern side of the ...

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 An adventure through Kumamoto
Let me introduce the 3 Blind Mice motorcycle touring club founded in Osaka, Japan in 1993 by one Scot, one Aussie and an Englishman, none were blind nor mice, but read on.
The Aussie, Steve Leave it-be, has now ‘left the building’ i.e. returned home to ...

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To the east of one of Japan’s most respected and highly acclaimed universities, Kyoto University, lies Philosopher’s Path named so as Kitaro Nishida often walked along it for his meditation. Nishida was a representative philosopher, who graduated from Kyoto University and was even di...

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In my post-university years, I was lucky enough to live in France for a time, where I developed a love of traditional Breton galettes. Sadly, these savoury buckwheat pancakes aren't readily available here in Japan, outside of the major cities. Yet a drive along the southern rim of th...

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Tarutama Onsen lies on the southern slopes of massive Mt Aso. There's not much here to indicate to visitors that this is one of the region's most beloved bathing spots, especially in autumn. A lone complex, the rambling Ryokan Yamaguchi, stands at the southern end of the Tarutama are...

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