Join English Information For Friends for an awesome experience where you can visit a tea field where the highest quality, hand picked tea is grown. Experience Hand-Picking Green Tea Leaves (with English support) When: Saturday, May 26th 2018 13:30 – 15:30 Where: Kokaen (67, Yashikibata, Yoshiwara-cho, Toyota City) Meet in front of the tea shop. (Parking space available.) Map […]
Getting Away in Japan: Okinawa
March 30, 2018 by Mark GuthrieOften referred to as Japan’s Hawaii, Okinawa is the primo vacation destination for Japanese, and with good reason. With beautiful beaches, stunning scenery, amazing food and friendly locals, there is so much to see and do, that anyone spending a length of time in Japan must find time to visit. Okinawa is a string of […]
Learn About Tokyo’s Yesteryear At Taito Shitamachi Museum
March 27, 2018 by Jason GatewoodSooner or later as you become acclimated to this place, you’ll start learning about the different eras of Japan. For example as of March 2018, we are living in the Heisei Era, as defined by the sitting emperor. It’s how the year is officially calculated, and loosely defines a generation’s identity. The era preceding this […]
Must See Shrines and Temples of Tokyo
March 27, 2018 by Mark GuthrieMany of Japan’s most famous shrines and temples are in the old capital of Kyoto. Tokyo, while not as historic as the city it replaced as the nation’s social and economic base, still has plenty of beautiful and important shrines and temples – hundreds even. Below is a selection of our top recommendations. Meiji Shrine Completed in […]
Your tour of the regions of Japan begins under the tracks of Akihabara
March 26, 2018 by Jason GatewoodOf course you know what Tokyo’s Akihabara district is known for: electronics, video games, anime and manga shops, maid cafes, and anything else that would make a nerd, geek, weeaboo and “technojapanophile” drool. Since I fit into lots of these categories, I tend to visit the area once a month or so just to check […]
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