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Visiting Kagawa’s popular cooking class where you make noodles with your feet

• Elliot Hale
  Sep 16, 2026
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Rock out as you dance your way to handmade sanuki udon.

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• Japan
• (COK • cooking • cool • crazy • dancing • food • Japan travel • Kagawa • Kompirasan • Kotohira • Kouhey • lesson • Nakano Udon School • Noodles • sanuki udon • Shikoku • SNJO • tourism • travel • udon • weird)

Beautiful 785-step Japanese shrine sando stairway walk is one very good reason to visit Kagawa

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 31, 2026

A sweaty, but unforgettable, visit to Kompirasan.

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• (beautiful • COK • cool • hiking • Japan travel • Kagawa • Kompirasan • Kotohira • Kotohiragu • Mountains • outdoors • Shikoku • shrine • SNJO • temples • tourism • travel)

Float all of your troubles away with a boat ride down the Shimanto River in Kochi Prefecture

• Krista Rogers
  Apr 1, 2026

Escape the urban sprawl by taking a tour on “Japan’s last clear stream” that will leave you clearly in tune with nature.

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• Japan
• (boat tour • COK • Japan travel • kochi • Marie Morimoto • nature • outdoors • Shikoku • Shimanto City • sightseeing • SNJO • submersible bridge • tourism • travel • yakatabune)

Japan has only one airport named after a samurai, so let’s check out Kochi Ryoma【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 25, 2026

Local legend Sakamoto Ryoma was all about modernizing Japan.

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• Japan
• (airports • COK • cool • culture • history • Japan travel • kochi • Kochi Prefecture • Sakamoto Ryoma • samurai • Shikoku • SNJO • tourism • travel)

Japan has trams that say “sorry” while they ride around town…but why?

• Oona McGee
  Feb 18, 2026

Gomen means sorry in Japanese, but in this town you’ll see it written on the streetcar destination displays.  

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• (Anpanman • COK • Gomen • Japanese train stations • kochi • Kochi Prefecture • Shikoku • SNJO • streetcar • Takashi Yanase • train stations • trains • tram • trams • travel)

What’s the most satisfying part of Japan to visit? Japanese locals make a surprising pick【Survey】

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 6, 2025

Kyoto drops out of the top 10 in annual survey.

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• (Jalan • Kagawa • Kagawa Prefecture • Kyoto • Shikoku • society • survey • tourism • travel)

What is kasshayaki, the Japanese street food only one prefecture is lucky enough to love?

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 10, 2025

It looks like takoyaki, but this specialty from Shikoku is something else.

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• (COK • food • Kagawa • kasshayaki • Shikoku • SNJO • street food • takoyaki)

How to do an overnight bus trip to Tokushima from Tokyo – Part 1【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Apr 27, 2025

A special bus takes us to a part of Japan with a special dance, special mountain, and more.

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• Japan
• (buses • Busta Shinjuku • COK • food • highway buses • Masanuki Sunakoma • overnight bus • overnight buses • Shikoku • shinjuku • Shinjuku Expressway Bus Terminal • SNJO • Tokushima • Tokushima City • Tokushima Prefecture • tourism • travel)

What’s the story behind the running boy mascot in Japan?

• Oona McGee
  Apr 21, 2025

“Emotional parking boy that can be used every day” is missing one vital thing.

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• (anime characters • art • car park • characters • cool • cute • Japanese mascots • mascot characters • Mascots • parking • parking areas • parking lot • parking lots • regional characters • regional mascots • Shikoku • Tokushima)

Japanese island with a population less than 10 is a hidden gem you won’t find in travel guides

• Oona McGee
  Sep 3, 2024

Welcome to one of the least explored regions in Japan.

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• (COK • island • islands • Japanese countryside • Kagawa Prefecture • nature • remote • Shikoku • SNJO • tourism • travel • Ushijima)

Japan’s two-month Shut-in Pilgrimage – A 1,200-year-old way to deal with a modern issue

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 15, 2024

Program helps hikikomori take steps towards reconnecting with the outside world.

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• (COK • culture • hikikomori • history • mental health • Shikoku • Shikoku Henro • Shikoku Pilgrimage • shut-ins • society)

One of Japan’s oldest castles now lets travelers spend night on the grounds, drink in its keep

• Casey Baseel
  Apr 30, 2024

Marugane Castle’s Castle Experience is a package fit, and priced, for a samurai lord.

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• (awesome • castles • COK • cool • history • Kagawa • Marugame • Shikoku • tourism • travel)

This Kochi sightseeing spot is one of Japan’s “three most disappointing spots,” but should it be?

• Dale Roll
  Jun 18, 2023

In fact, this tourist attraction is four things–and a whole lot of history–in one!

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• Japan
• (bridge • bridges • haruka takagi • history • Japan travel • kochi • Kochi Prefecture • Shikoku • tourism • travel)

Have you tried Tokushima ramen? No? You should (says our obsessed Japanese-language reporter)

• Dale Roll
  May 18, 2022

This relatively unknown local delicacy is well worth getting your hands on…if you can find it!

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• (COK • food • Ikuna Kamezawa • Noodles • Okayama • ramen • Ramen Todai • Shikoku • SNJO • taste test • Tokushima • Tokushima ramen • western Japan)

Shikoku Island holds world landmark lookalike photography contest judged by AI

• Master Blaster
  Apr 18, 2022

Many of the greatest places on Earth are all on one rural Japanese island.

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• Japan
• (AI • Ehime • Kagawa • kochi • photography • Shikoku • Tokushima • travel • world landmarks)

Online pilgrimages along Japan’s famous Shikoku Henro route begin later this year

• Master Blaster
  Jan 3, 2022

A journey of 1,000 kilometers begins with a single log-in.

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• Japan
• (Buddhism • culture • history • pilgrimage • religion • Shikoku • Shikoku Henro • Shikoku Pilgrimage • tourism • travel • Zoom)

Exploring the castle town in Kagawa Prefecture that inspired its own free-to-play RPG

• Krista Rogers
  Mar 16, 2021

Marugame Castle also holds the distinction of being one of only 12 castles in Japan with this particular architectural element left intact.  

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• Japan
• (Ayake Idate • Final Aoe Thrash • Kagawa Prefecture • Marugame Castle • Marugame City • princesses • RPG • Shikoku • sword • tourism • travel • udon • video game)

Japan’s favorite Pokémon types by prefecture–which types are the most popular?

• Dale Roll
  Jan 7, 2021

You might guess the most popular Pokémon type in the country, but each prefecture might surprise you!

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• Japan
• (anime • Chubu • Chugoku • Hokkaido • Japan • Kansai • Kanto • Kyushu • Okinawa • Pokemon • popular • prefectures • ranking • Shikoku • survey • Tohoku)

Japanese prefecture that named a Pokémon as its governor to install 16 new Pokémon manholes

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 18, 2019

Or should these artistic salutes to Slowpoke be called “monholes?”

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• Japan
• (anime • cute • Kagawa • manholes • Pokemon • Shikoku • Slowpoke • travel • video games • Yadon)

Japan’s new luxury sightseeing train will show you part of the country most foreigners never see

• Casey Baseel
  May 29, 2019

Toki no Yoake Monogatari lets you enjoy the ride as you travel off the Shinkansen-beaten path.

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• Japan
• (beautiful • cool • Japan Railways • JR • kochi • luxury trains • Shikoku • sightseeing trains • trains • travel)

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