Fables of the Japanese Combini
Everybody thinks they know how awesome Japanese convenience stores are, but did you also know these things?
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Everybody thinks they know how awesome Japanese convenience stores are, but did you also know these things?
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Summer vacation is in full swing, COVID-19 travel restrictions are almost completely a thing of...
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When it comes to the idea of technology crossing the blurred line into the creative fields, I am a pragmatist.
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While Kyoto chokes on tourists, countless other cities and regions of Japan that are equally charming, beautiful or historic remain virtually ignored. Here are 5 amazing cities in Japan other than Kyoto and Tokyo that are easily accessible even to first-time visitors to Japan.
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You may find yourself at peace in natural surroundings whose love for you isn’t so unrequited… but the image of Kinsaku Baru will haunt you, in a wistful way not entirely unpleasant, and it will change you.
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A former friend introduced me to Craig Mod’s Ridgeline, a fascinating little newsletter...
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Ask many city-dwelling Japanese if they have ever visited Kochi Prefecture in the southern part of...
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Atagoya is one of those special places combining history and luxury, the product of a young entrepreneur restoring Japan’s historic kominka folk houses.
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How the Japanese “Hidden Christians” of tiny and impoverished Gorin Village in the Goto Islands finally got the beautiful church building they prayed for.
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This is the Iya Valley of Tokushima Prefecture, sitting at the edge of the world, sometimes just beyond it.
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Though the clients have changed, the masters behind the craft remain the same: madmen obsessed with the quality of their blades.
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The time I tried to do “workation” in Nagano in Japan and failed miserably. But perhaps it wasn’t misery I found, but a chance to truly relax.
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