Like this post? Help us by sharing it! Set aside any preconceptions about Poundland or dollar stores, Japanese Daiso shops are a (seemingly) never ending treasure trove of goodies that you’ll actually want when you get home. Perfect for a last minute souvenir. Like this post? Help us by sharing it!
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Guide to Japanese vending machines
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! Vending machines, useful but mundane? In Japan, tour leader Steve Parker insists they’re a tourist attraction in their own right. Like this post? Help us by sharing it!
10 of the best activities in Japan
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! While we don’t want to do the whole ‘it’s not what you know, it’s who you know’ thing, we’ve been sending travellers to Japan for nearly 20 years (crikey, time flies!), and it’s the friends we’ve made along the way that give us access to lots of […]
7 reasons to visit Hokkaido
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! Of the four main islands that make up Japan, Hokkaido is a little different. Actually, it’s very different. This is partly to do with its geography — all windswept plateaus and freezing Siberian storms — but it’s partly because Hokkaido wasn’t even part of Japan until the […]
Insider’s guide to staying at a ryokan
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! Staying at a ryokan should be up there on your Japan wish-list alongside spotting a geisha, seeing Mount Fuji and jumping aboard the shinkansen (bullet train). The experience of staying at these traditional inns is uniquely Japanese, so it might be worth a few pointers to get […]
J-Pop & Go! Japan’s Golden Route with a difference
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! Studio Ghibli, sword fighting and sinking into hot springs – what a way to celebrate an 18th birthday! Mary Loosemore shares the highlights of the HYPERJAPAN J-Pop & Go! tour she took with her niece, Rosa. Like this post? Help us by sharing it!
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! Studio Ghibli, sword fighting and sinking into hot springs – what a way to celebrate an 18th birthday! Mary Loosemore shares the highlights of the HYPERJAPAN J-Pop & Go! tour she took with her niece, Rosa. Like this post? Help us by sharing it!