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Shizuoka Organic Festival
Nestled in a wooded corner of the Shizuoka Exercise Park, the Shizuoka Organic Festival might be difficult to find if it weren’t ...
Chubu
Old Town Charm in Hida Furukawa
Nestled in Central Japan is a charming town preserving traditional crafts, historical streets and authentic Japanese countryside ...
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Mad About Pow
A powder pocket, sitting smack dab on the border of Nagano and Niigata prefectures, has recently become a hot spot for snow lover...
Niseko
Niseko Art & Dining
Niseko draws thousands of visitors each year to Japan’s northernmost island in search of the steep and deep. Yet when these famed...
Craft Beer
Powder, Hot Springs and Hops
A sleepy ski town and hot spring village in northern Nagano Prefecture has become an unexpected hot spot for craft beer love...
Craft Beer
Oh! La! Ho! Beer
This Nagano brewery started out as a public/private joint venture back in 1994. The first two decades brought uneven success. Ini...
Markets
Osanbashi Marche
The newest addition to the array of farmers markets in the Tokyo and Yokohama regions is the Osanbashi Marche. When no ships are ...
Travel
Hunan’s Floating Mountains
A crisp fog clears, revealing islands “floating” in the clouds. Massive, dangerously narrow sandstone columns seemingly defy...