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Not every trip to Japan is built around a single activity, and this section covers the rest: cultural travel, eco-tourism, adventure travel, onsen and hot spring culture, and the practical planning that ties a trip together. Start with our Best Time to Visit Japan guide if you’re still deciding when to go, or our guide to Takaragawa Onsen in Gunma if a great hot spring is part of the plan. This is also the broadest section on the site, so use the subcategories below to narrow in on a specific region, culture, or travel style.
Market Watch
Sendai’s Asaichi Market
They say good farmers make good cooks, and one step onto the narrow side street that is the Sendai Asaichi Market makes it clear ...
Bungy Jumping
Q&A with Bungy Japan’s Charles Odlin
Japan’s highest bridge bungy opens this spring in Ibaraki Prefecture. Outdoor Japan talks to Bungy Japan’s founder, Charles Odlin...
Shizuoka
Battle of the Skies
If you are tired of battling the crowds at the airport during Golden Week, there are plenty of ways to celebrate the spring holid...
Scuba Diving
Drive and Dive Okinawa
Travelers flock to Okinawa’s islands for sun, sand and the undersea attractions. Ishigaki has manta ray stations, Yonaguni submer...
Adventure Racing
To the End and Back
Unfamiliar names on a travel itinerary are a beautiful thing. Summoning my best college Spanish, I read them aloud. “Puerto Montt...
Snowboarding
10 Years On the Road – A Car Danchi Flashb...
Time is a fickle creature, sometimes creeping along, other times so fast you can’t keep up. There are many ways to measure time, ...
Sailing and Boating
Return of the Humpbacks: An Okinawa Success Stor...
There was a time, several decades ago, when the humpback whales stopped coming to Okinawa. Today, hundreds return each winter, an...
Snowmobiling
Mission Impossible
About 180 kilometers into the mission, the gravity of the situation pulled me down like a lead weight toward the thick ice and th...