About an hour by train from Shinjuku, the Nishitama area of western Tokyo opens into gentle valleys with clear rivers and ...

Hinohara Village lies at Tokyo’s western edge, with forests covering roughly 90 percent of its land. Despite being only about ...

Roughly 1,000 kilometers south of the capital—24 hours by ferry—the Ogasawara Islands are a UNESCO World Natural Heritage ...

Kodaira lies near the heart of Tokyo’s North Tama area, where the legacy of water and greenery still runs deep. At the center ...

A remarkable exhibition spotlighting the pioneering fashion designer Hanae Mori is under way at Iwami Art Museum in the ...

Tochigi Prefecture deserves to be on every traveler’s wish list. Just two hours by train from Tokyo, it is blessed with ...

An interview with Christopher Harding, historian and author, who explores Japan’s culture and history through books that blend narrative flair with scholarship.

Bread first came to Japan through Portuguese traders and missionaries in the mid-16th century. However, Christianity was banned in the early 17th century, and any toehold bread had made went with it.

Helpful signposts show the way along the Ohechi route. It is the end of the first day of a three-day hike following the course of an ancient pilgrimage route along the coast of Japan and everything is ...

Tales of the samurai are synonymous with swordsmen around the world, but in fact some of Japan’s most celebrated warriors were women. Technically, women couldn’t become samurai. But samurai was a ...

Just about everyone around the world knows the word "kimono," but the idea most people have is that a kimono is a single piece of fabric, or a simple robe. However, kimono (着物, which literally means ...

良品計畫株式會社以零售製造業者之姿，從商品企劃、製造、流通至銷售，「無印良品」品牌成功推向大眾生活裡，不僅在日本國內擁有許多店鋪，更揚名海外。從衣著類至生活雜貨到食品，用 ...