Nyuto Onsen, Akita
Nyuto Onsen is a remote, hot spring enclave in the mountains along a river. There’s a variety of hot spring baths, both indoors and outdoors. Very rustic and charming in…
Japan Blog by Philbert Ono
Nyuto Onsen is a remote, hot spring enclave in the mountains along a river. There’s a variety of hot spring baths, both indoors and outdoors. Very rustic and charming in…
Over half a century ago in 1970, Japan held the biggest and grandest world exposition the world had ever seen. It was Expo ’70 in Suita, Osaka from March to…
Ehime is in Shikoku facing the picturesque Seto Inland Sea. In 1999, a series of bridges and highways hopping over small islands across the Inland Sea connected Shikoku and Honshu.…
Noto Peninsula (Noto Hanto) is a large, scenic peninsula jutting into the Sea of Japan like a dorsal fin. Lots of tourist sights, but the train line goes only halfway…
Japan being such a mountainous country, there are bound to be prefectures with a famous mountain as its main symbol. Mt. Fuji for Shizuoka, Mt. Aso for Kumamoto, and for…
Miyazaki Prefecture’s most prominent natural feature are these neat parallel rows or grooves of pockmarked, platform rock nicknamed the “Devil’s Washboard” (鬼の洗濯板). They are uplifted wave-cut platforms (隆起波食台) formed by…
An ordinary-looking forest in Japan (upper right photo). Nothing spooky about it right? Right. It’s only Aokigahara Forest, a beautiful forest on the northwestern foot/slope of Mt. Fuji. However, it…
Korakuen is one of the Big Three Famous Japanese Gardens (Nihon Sanmeien 日本三名園). The other two are Kairakuen in Mito, Ibaraki Prefecture famous for ume plum blossoms and Kenrokuen in…
Near the coastal city of Shunan, there’s a small island called Ozushima (大津島) in the Seto Inland Sea. During the latter years of World War II in 1944–1945, Ozushima was…
Huge outdoor park on an archaeological site where ruins from the Yayoi Period were discovered and excavated since the mid-1980s. The Yayoi Period (10th–3rd century BC 弥生時代) is noted for…