In-depth guides and local insights from our team in Japan.
In this article: Introduction Most railway museums are collections of stationary objects. This one has a roundhouse from 1914 with live steam...
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In this article: Introduction On a fine afternoon the lawn outside the Kyoto Manga Museum is covered in people lying on their...
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In this article: Introduction Nintendo has been in Kyoto since 1889, and for most of that time it made playing cards. That...
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In this article: Introduction After the war, black-market stalls selling vacuum tubes and radio parts collected under the railway arches at Akihabara...
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In this article: Introduction Roppongi has a reputation among Japanese people that lags about fifteen years behind reality. Ask a Tokyo resident...
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In this article: Introduction Sendai is a city of a million people that most international travelers pass through on the way to...
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In this article: Introduction Fukuoka has an airport twelve minutes by subway from the city centre. That single fact shapes the whole...
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In this article: Introduction Kyushu sits at the southwestern end of Japan, close enough to the continent that it absorbed Chinese and...
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In this article: Introduction For most of the Edo period, when Japan was closed to foreigners, one small fan-shaped artificial island in...
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