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Travel secrets: East Japan’s own Monet Pond and Kiyomizu in Tochigi【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 24, 2023
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It’s a long walk up the mountain, but they’re worth it.

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• Japan
• (beautiful • Benten • Benzaiten • COK • koi • Monet • Monet Pond • shrines • SNJO • Tochigi • travel)

This bath bomb looks and feels like an Edo gold bar, is great for gifts or bathing like a shogun

• Dale Roll
  Mar 5, 2023

And it makes for a very nice bath!

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• Japan
• (bath • bath bomb • gift • gold • Ieyasu Tokugawa • Masanuki Sunakoma • ofuro • Sano • Tochigi)

We find a hidden gyoza eatery in Utsunomiya and discover the local way of eating them

• Krista Rogers
  Oct 13, 2022

A gyoza eatery behind a closed game arcade in the basement of a Mega Don Quijote–that doesn’t sound spooky at all…

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• Japan
• (Don Quijote • Egawa Tasuku • food • gourmet • gyoza • Kirasse • Minmin • Tochigi • travel • utsunomiya)

Miniature Japanese ramen cakes are a rare, locally guarded secret

• Oona McGee
  Jun 17, 2022

Like a tiny plastic model from a gacha capsule toy machine, but totally edible.

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• Japan
• (cakes • COK • cool • cute • food • local specialties • Noodles • ramen • Sano • service area • SNJO • sweets • taste test • Tochigi • weird)

This little-known temple in rural Japan has a giant Buddha bigger than Kamakura’s or Nara’s【Pics】

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 13, 2022

A visit to Seirinji Temple.

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• Japan
• (Buddha • Buddha statues • Buddhism • COK • cool • SNJO • temples • Tochigi • travel)

Mist descends upon Japan’s “Killing Stone” after ceremony to appease nine-tailed fox spirit

• Oona McGee
  Mar 28, 2022

Does this mean the priest’s purification ritual has placated the beast? Or is it an omen of something else to come?

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• Japan
• (culture • folklore • history • Japanese culture • Japanese folklore • Killing Stone • landscape • myths • Nasu • nine-tailed fox • purification rituals • rocks • Sesshoseki • shinto • shrines • stones • Tamamo-no-Mae • Tochigi • tourist sites • travel)

Japan’s “killing stone” splits in two, possibly unleashing evil nine-tailed fox spirit

• Oona McGee
  Mar 8, 2022

Ominous event has people fearing this is a harbinger of doom.

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• Japan
• (culture • folklore • history • Japanese culture • Japanese folklore • Killing Stone • landscape • myths • Nasu • nine-tailed fox • rocks • Sesshoseki • stones • Tamamo-no-Mae • Tochigi • tourist sites • travel)

Hey, Japanese taxi driver! Take us to a great restaurant in Utsunomiya

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 28, 2022

It’s a gyoza town, but what happens when you ask for a restaurant that’s got other great good too?

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• Japan
• (COK • food • gyoza • Hey Japanese taxi driver • restaurants • SNJO • Tochigi • travel • utsunomiya)

Famous Japanese sword becomes tiny sweets knife in order to slice into matcha pound cake

• Dale Roll
  Feb 24, 2022

Celebrate the 100-year anniversary of Ashikaga City in Tochigi with these fun commemorative goods.

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• Japan
• (Ashikaga City • cool • green tea • Horikawa Kunihiro • Katana • matcha • sweets • swords • Tochigi • Yamanbagiri Kunihiro)

Tochigi Prefecture’s three new Pokéfuta are the first in the north of Japan’s Kanto region

• Krista Rogers
  Feb 8, 2022

These new Pokéfuta also mean that half of all Japanese prefectures are now equipped with their own unique Pokémon manhole covers.

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• Japan
• (anime • cool • cute • manhole covers • Poké Lids • Pokéfuta • Pokemon • Tochigi • travel • utsunomiya • video games)

Which prefecture has the most chilled young people? Survey asks 20 year olds “what are you worried about?”

• Katie Pask
  Feb 25, 2021

How do you say ‘Hakuna Matata’ in Japanese? Maybe people from these prefectures can tell you!

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• Japan
• (COK • Fukuoka • ranking • society • stress • survey • Tochigi • worries • Yamaguchi)

Terrific Tochigi! Japanese prefecture proves its beauty with scenery showcase【Video】

• Katy Kelly
  Oct 27, 2020

This jaw-dropping video will make you wonder how Tochigi Prefecture came in last in the prefectural popularity poll.

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• Japan
• (gorgeous • Japan • Nasu • Nikko • polls • prefectures • scenery • Tochigi • Tochigi Prefecture • tourism)

Brand-new Tokyo Shibuya Scramble intersection opens…but over 50 miles away from Tokyo?!【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 4, 2020

Tokyo won’t give you a permit to film on the Scramble Crossing? Don’t worry, because now there’s an alternate site!

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• Japan
• (cool • crazy • film permits • movies • scramble crossing • Scramble Intersection • Shibuya • Shibuya Scramble • Tochigi • Tokyo • TV dramas • weird)

Japan’s amazing wisteria flowers are here to make us all forget about the cherry blossoms【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Apr 19, 2019

Amazing garden’s massive 150 year-old flowering ofuji looks more beautiful than ever.

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• Japan
• (beautiful • flowers • gardens • nature • parks • Tochigi • wisteria)

Free Calpis fresh out of the tap available across Japan in celebration of 100th anniversary

• Master Blaster
  Feb 26, 2019

For maximum enjoyment we recommend reading the following article out loud.

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• Japan
• (Aichi • anniversary • Calpico • Calpis • event • faucets • free • Fukuoka • Hiroshima • Hokkaido • Kagawa • Miyagi • Osaka • Tochigi • Tokyo)

Tochigi man arrested for shoplifting animals from hardware store to feed to his cat

• Master Blaster
  Sep 2, 2018

Suspect’s pet must have been a finicky feline to need to eat exotic prey like parakeets and hamsters.

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• Japan
• (cats • crime • hamsters • home improvement center • parakeets • pets • shoplifting • Tochigi)

French woman with epilepsy has been missing in Japan since July 29, police announce

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 8, 2018

Single traveler spent two nights in Japan before disappearing while in mountainous sightseeing town.

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• Europe, Japan
• (foreigners in Japan • france • missing person • Nikko • Tiphaine Veron • Tochigi)

Starbucks’ cool new Japan Geography tumblers will take you on a trip around the country

• Casey Baseel
  May 3, 2018

Local sites and foods of five prefectures proudly displayed on mugs, bottles.

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• Japan
• (cute • drinks • Gifu • interior • Nagasaki • Nara • Oita • Starbucks • Tochigi)

Diamond Route Japan series shows off all the beautiful reasons to travel outside of Tokyo【Videos】

• Meg Murphy
  Apr 8, 2018

This promotional video series will leave you with chills, planning your next trip to Japan

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• Japan
• (Diamond Route Japan • Fukushima • Ibaraki • promotional video • Tochigi • travel • video)

Soak in a secret Japanese onsen hot spring…in a dilapidated old building

• Oona McGee
  Mar 15, 2018

This is one of the most unusual onsen in all of Japan.
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• Japan
• (haikyo • hitou • hot springs • Nasu • onsen • secret Japan • secret onsen • Tochigi • tourism • travel)

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