In-depth guides and local insights from our team in Japan.
In this article: Introduction A generation ago, Japanese whisky was a well-kept secret. Then its single malts started winning the world’s top...
Read More →In this article: Introduction of Many visitors’ experience of sake begins and ends with a small cup of something warm at a...
Read More →In this article: Introduction The first cold beer in a Japanese izakaya, poured with a precise finger of foam, is a small...
Read More →In this article: Introduction Few foods say Osaka like takoyaki. Watch a vendor work a molded iron pan, spinning rows of batter...
Read More →In this article: Introduction Osaka is Japan’s kitchen, and okonomiyaki is one of its defining dishes. The name roughly means “grill what...
Read More →In this article: Introduction If you picture New Year as fireworks and parties, Japan’s version will surprise you. Oshogatsu is quiet, familial,...
Read More →In this article: Introduction Obon is one of the most meaningful times in the Japanese year, when ancestral spirits are believed to...
Read More →In this article: Introduction Halloween arrived in Japan as an import and became something the country made its own. There is little...
Read More →In this article: Introduction The ninja everyone pictures — a figure in black leaping across rooftops with mystical powers — is largely...
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