Hakone is one of the most recommended excursions from Tokyo and a popular destination among Japanese people as well. Easily accessible from Tokyo, full of museums and natural beauties, including the view (albeit not so obvious) of Mount Fuji and onsen, can be enjoyed both as a day trip from…
The perception of time changes in the Valley of Iya. Everything flows according to the rhythms of nature in this isolated and remote valley, which became one of the places of refuge of the Taira clan, defeated by the Minamoto in the Genpei War. So far from the neon and…
The small single-car train crosses the Japanese countryside, the rice fields, and then is surrounded by mountains. Pass a station with a cat stationmaste and stop at a small thatched station. A short bus ride and you find yourself in the Edo period, on the Aizu Nishi-Kaido that connects Aizu…
In Japan, there are several onsen towns, but the small Shibu Onsen still retains that charm of the past, with its wooden houses and cobbled streets, where you can stroll wearing geta and yukata while you go to soaking from one onsen to another. If we add that the Jigokudani…
Seeing the monkeys close, in total freedom, perhaps while they are enjoying the warm thermal waters of a Japanese onsen…. Is the reality of the Jigokudani park, also known as Snow Monkey Park, in Japan, precisely in the Nagano prefecture. Totally one of the experiences to not to miss in…
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When planning a trip to Japan, it is normal to have a lot of questions and doubts about this distant country. We all have in mind the splendid images of cherry blossoms, Mount Fuji and the amazing shinkansen, the bullet trains, and many people dream of a trip to Japan…
Entering an onsen means to remove everything, literally. Onsen, the traditional Japanese hot springs, are not just a place to relax by immersing yourself in the hot thermal waters, but they are a place where you enter totally naked, stripping off your clothes, make-up, prejudices and anxieties about your body.…
Located in a hollow in the heart of the Japanese Alps, Nagano was the city that hosted the 1998 Olympic Games and due to its location it is an excellent gate to other destinations in the prefecture, first of all the Snow Monkey Park, the park of the snow monkeys,…
Loyalty, obedience, sacrifice, honor… these are the values that we associate to the Samurai spirit of Bushido. In modern Japan there are still many traces of the feudal Japan of the past, such as the story of the 47 Ronin or that of the Byakkotai, the brigade of the White…
Among the many Japanese rites of the beginning of the year, such as the Hatsumode, the first visit of the year to the Shrine to pray for luck in the new year, there is also the Shichifujukin Meguri, or the pilgrimage of the 7 lucky gods. This pilgrimage is usually…