Browse through the categories below and dive into the riches of Japan! People and organizations share their experiences, advice, photography, articles and blogs with you.
Experts on Japan
Unlike many experts, Ryukyu Mike knows more about remote areas and critters than five star hotels, restaurants and flight schedules in his neck of the woods. He’s lived in Okinawa, Japan for ov... Read More...
I lived in Japan for two years, teaching English in Hiroshima and working with a private Japanese company in Kagoshima. During that time I had the chance to travel extensively around the four ma... Read More...
To say myself as an expert...I think that of down to earth eatery in Tokyo, and other ways around in Tokyo area. Also I'd have network of experts in different sort in Japan, who is not necessari... Read More...
People in Japan
| Ryukyu MikeLocation: Japan | realsoulsurfinLocation: Japan | nomadicsirenLocation: Japan | VlogabondLocation: Japan | kimayou MeiguiLocation: Japan | railroamerLocation: Japan |
Articles about Japan
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Category: Music+Art
Groping Through the Dance of DarknessThrough the study of Butoh, the Japanese "Dance of Darkness," a young traveler faces the fundamental question: am I faking it? |
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Category: Sport
One in 4,000: High School Baseball in JapanAn American teaching High School in Japan discovers that baseball, with all its similarities on the field, holds an entirely different place in the lives of young athletes in Japan. |
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Category: Travel+Place
The Way to the North Sea: Teuri Island, Hokkaido, Japan"Of course, Kerouac never actually crossed the Pacific to see Hokkaido for himself, and if he had, he would have found the sort of place he loved - frontier country, split by open highways and empty rails, with brown bears in the mountains and salmon rushing up the river-mouths," Tim Patterson writes in this colorful guide to Teuri Island, Hokkaido, Japan. |
Guides/Tips on Japan
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Blogs about Japan
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Starting the Japanese New Year with a Glimpse of "Diamond Fuji"Tokyo’s Shinjuku Station is the world’s busiest transit hub. Seeing it empty on a Saturday morning had an Armageddon feel to it. Shops were shuttered and train station attendants yawned in their plexiglass cubicles. It was January 2nd. Everyone... |
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Travel Versus Travel Photos
When I opened up my account here with Matador and I was digging through files of travel photos to stick on my profile page I got to thinking about my somewhat strained relationship with taking pictures whilst I traveled. You see, when I started traveling some ten years ago I think I might have... |
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The Land of CatsThis is a "letter" written to my Mom while traveling in Southern Okinawa. This is what I would have loved to have told her had my cell phone been able to make calls to the states: Mom, I love my life right now. I just got lost in some rice or wheat field and ended up at a restaurant on the coast that... |

