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The adventure of skipping Tokyo’s crazy crowded commuter trains by biking home to the suburbs
- Casey Baseel
May 27, 2025 - Tweet
Fresh air, meat, and so, so much darkness.
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- (Ahiruneko • bicycles • bicycling • COK • commuting • crazy • cycling • hachioji • Hello Cycling • renal bicycles • rentacycles • rush hour • SNJO • tourism • travel)
Staying at this Tokyo budget hotel feels like visiting your Japanese grandma’s house
- Casey Baseel
May 27, 2025
Granny hospitality at Ryogetsu.
Made-to-order onigiri rice ball hotel breakfast buffet in Tokyo is open (and awesome) to all
- Casey Baseel
May 26, 2025
A handmade way to start the day in downtown Tokyo’s most traditional neighborhood.
- Japan
- (Asakusa • breakfast • buffet • COK • food • hotels • onigiri • restaurants • rice balls • SNJO • tourism • travel)
Respect the salmon – a visit to an off-the-beaten-path foodie destination in Niigata【Photos】
- Casey Baseel
May 22, 2025
This charming town on the Sea of Japan coast is a great place to dive into a local culinary culture without massive tourist crowds.
- Japan
- (COK • culture • dried salmon • fish • food • Murakami • Niigata • restaurants • salmon • seafood • shiobiki • SNJO • tourism • travel)
New retro museum in Tokyo is like a time portal back to the Showa era【Photos】
- Casey Baseel
May 17, 2025
A look back at Japan’s past in one of Tokyo’s more modern neighborhoods.
- Japan
- (COK • cool • history • museums • odaiba • Odaiba Retro Museum • Showa • Showa Era • Showa period • Showa retro • tourism • travel)
Small trees, big beauty await at Japan’s Bonsai Art Museum【Photos】
- Casey Baseel
May 13, 2025
Less than an hour from downtown Tokyo, this neighborhood with a rich bonsai history is a beautiful spot for a little miniature tranquility.
- Japan
- (bonsai • bonsai trees • COK • culture • gardens • museums • Omiya Bonsai Art Museum • Saitama • SNJO • tourism • travel)
Temple in tiny town in Japan transforms into otherworldly beauty on special summer nights
- Casey Baseel
May 12, 2025
Tokoji’s event is compelling reason to make a trip to one of Japan’s less-visited prefectures.
A close encounter with a dangerous criminal on a Shinkansen bullet train in Japan
- Oona McGee
May 9, 2025
Frightening experience shows that although Japan might be considered safe, you never know when you might have a brush with danger.
- Japan
- (bullet train • Central Japan Railway Company • crime • Japan Railway Company • JR • JR Central • news • police • shinkansen • Tokaido Shinkansen • Tokyo • tourism • trains • travel)
Survey asks foreign tourists what bothered them in Japan, more than half gave same answer
- Casey Baseel
May 8, 2025
Lack of trash cans once again is high on the list, but not the top response.
Go back in time at this off-the-beaten tourist site in Japan
- Oona McGee
May 6, 2025
Historic World Heritage Site is a living breathing town that looks like it did when samurai roamed the streets.
- Japan
- (accommodation • culture • hot spring • Japanese accommodation • off the beaten path • off the beaten track • onsen • retreats • ryokan • Shimane • shrines • spa • temples • tourism • tourist sites • tradition • travel • UNESCO World Heritage Site • World Heritage site)
Taste-testing Japan’s “I love Obama” cakes【Taste test】
- Casey Baseel
May 6, 2025
There’s an obvious gag gift element to these manju from Fukui, but is the pun delicious?
- Japan
- (Barack Obama • COK • food • Fukui • funny • manju • Obama • politicians • SNJO • sweets • taste test • tourism • travel • wagashi • weird)
Is Tokyo’s obviously for-foreign-tourists wagyu sukiyaki crepe delicious enough for a local?
- SoraNews24
May 5, 2025
We could be falling into a tourist trap in Asakusa, or we could be falling in meaty love.
- Japan
- (Asakusa • beef • COK • crazy • crepes • food • inbound food • meat • restaurants • SNJO • taste test • tourism • Wagyu • weird)
Best breakfast in Akihabara? Might be the breakfast buffet at this “family restaurant”
- Casey Baseel
May 4, 2025
Most Jonathan’s don’t have a buffet, but this one is an awesome exception.
- Japan
- (Akihabara • all-you-can-eat • breakfast • buffet • COK • family restaurants • food • hotels • Jonathan's • restaurants • SNJO • tourism • travel)
A daytime visit to Tokyo’s “station of despair” to look for demon lairs【Photos】
- Casey Baseel
May 3, 2025
Just because this trip to Otsuki didn’t go as planned doesn’t mean it didn’t go well.
- Japan
- (Ahiruneko • COK • hiking • Momotaro • nature • Otsuki • Otsuki Station • outdoors • SNJO • station of despair • tourism • travel • Yamanashi)
How to do an overnight bus trip to Tokushima from Tokyo – Part 2【Photos】
- Casey Baseel
Apr 29, 2025
Local dances, local ramen, and more to love about Tokushima.
- Japan
- (Awa Odori • Awa Odori Kaikan • buses • Busta Shinjuku • COK • food • highway buses • Masanuki Sunakoma • overnight bus • overnight buses • shinjuku • Shinjuku Expressway Bus Terminal • SNJO • sweets • Tokushima • Tokushima City • Tokushima Prefecture • tourism • travel)
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.
- 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)
Shimane’s hidden travel sites, where you can escape the crowds and enjoy traditional Japan
- Oona McGee
Apr 26, 2025
Sake, shrines and onsen hot springs await you at beautiful destinations that are yet to be discovered by overseas tourists.
- Japan
- (accommodation • culture • hot spring • Japanese accommodation • off the beaten path • off the beaten track • onsen • retreats • ryokan • Shimane • shrines • spa • temples • tourism • tourist sites • tradition • travel)
Mt. Fuji climbing reservation website is now open, and here’s how to reserve your spot
- Casey Baseel
Apr 25, 2025
Reservations and per-person hiking fees are now mandatory for the Yoshida Trail.
- Japan
- (hiking • Mountains • Mt. Fuji • Mt. Fuji trails • nature • outdoors • tourism • travel • Yoshida Trail)
The pros and cons of working from a Japanese hot spring inn
- Oona McGee
Apr 24, 2025
Onsen ryokan stay leads to some surprising discoveries.
- Japan
- (accommodation • Ahiruneko • COK • hot springs • hotels • inns • Japanese accommodation • onsen • ryokan • SNJO • tourism • travel • work from home • work in Japan)
Foreign travelers’ lukewarm reactions to traditional Japanese inn food causing changes in Kyoto
- Casey Baseel
Apr 24, 2025
Classical part of ryokan culture is fading away at some inns.
- Japan
- (COK • culture • food • hotels • inns • Japanese inns • Kyoto • overtourism • ryokan • society • tourism • travel)
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