Like this post? Help us by sharing it! InsideJapan Tours tour leaders have travelled the length and breadth of Japan and love it – That’s why they do it. One of the best things about being a tour leader in Japan is having the opportunity to show other people this stunning country along with introducing […]
Places & Where To Stay
Chiba Prefecture. Who knew?
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! My colleague calls it the armpit of Japan. Well, Chiba certainly has a distinctive shape; a huge prefecture sticking out at a great ugly right-angle, like a protective claw around Tokyo bay. And it feeds the capital too, providing millions upon millions of cheap concrete apartment blocks […]
Mecca for gamers
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Vive la (geek) revolution!
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! A good tour of Japan should always include a visit to the Mecca for gamers. Often just called ‘Gai-sen’ (ゲーセン) by the younger patrons, the ‘Game Center‘ (ゲームセンター) is like our good old Video arcades… but on steroids. From Sapporo to Nagasaki, people flock into windowless, five […]
Temples of Kyoto – Kodaiji
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The view from Kodaiji
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! With 16000 temples and over 400 shrines, Kyoto has no shortage of places to visit. In fact, the hardest part about coming here on holiday is trying to figure out which sites you should go out of your way to see and which ones you should leave […]
A Kichijoji Sunday
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! To stroll around Kichijoji on a Sunday is to participate in a Tokyo ritual. I spend most of my Sundays there. Enjoying their day off, thousands of relaxing Tokyoites come to wander its park, lake and hundreds of stores and restaurants. There is a festive, albeit Sunday-sober, atmosphere, and […]
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! To stroll around Kichijoji on a Sunday is to participate in a Tokyo ritual. I spend most of my Sundays there. Enjoying their day off, thousands of relaxing Tokyoites come to wander its park, lake and hundreds of stores and restaurants. There is a festive, albeit Sunday-sober, atmosphere, and […]