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Central Japan’s most famous cherry blossom spot now has sakura helicopter sky cruises

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 18, 2025
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Plans offer a (whirly)bird’s-eye view of Nara’s top cherry blossom destination.

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• Japan
• (cherry blossoms • COK • helicopter • Mt. Yoshino • Nara Prefecture • sakura • tourism • travel • Yoshino)

One of Japan’s craziest stores filled a swimming pool with used CDs【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 16, 2025

Disk-aunt might have just the treasure you’ve been searching for, but you’re going to have to find it yourself.

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• Japan
• (awesome • CDs • COK • cool • crazy • physical media • SNJO • tourism • travel • weird)

Dog-killing waves create spectacular views on this remote Japanese island

• Elliot Hale
  Jan 16, 2025

A dramatic local legend and fascinating rock formations make this island unforgettable.

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• Japan
• (Amami Archipelago • Amami Islands • beautiful scenery • COK • Innojofuta • island • Kagoshima • myths and legends • nature • Ocean • scenery • sea • Seiji Nakazawa • SNJO • Tokunoshima • tourism • tourist site • tourist spot • travel)

These nine Osaka restaurants are the newest to receive Michelin guide recommendations

• SoraNews24
  Jan 16, 2025

Nine new restaurants make the list in west Japan’s biggest foodie town.

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• Japan
• (COK • food • Michelin • Michelin Guide • Michelin restaurant guide • Osaka • restaurants • tourism • travel)

Super-detailed cherry blossom forecast maps for 2025 show warm winter doesn’t mean early sakura

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 15, 2025

Maps show expected blossoming dates for major cities across Japan.

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• Japan
• (cherry blossoms • cherry blossoms forecast • cherry blossoms forecast 2025 • COK • flowers • nature • sakura • sakura forecast • sakura forecast 2025 • tourism • travel)

These nine Kyoto restaurants are the newest to receive Michelin guide recommendations

• SoraNews24
  Jan 15, 2025

Guide won’t be released in full until later this year, but here are nine Kyoto spots to add to your to-eat itinerary right now.

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• Japan
• (food • Kyoto • Michelin • Michelin Guide • Michelin restaurant guide • restaurants • tourism • travel)

Japan’s most competitive neighboring prefectures are revealed in a recent survey

• Elliot Hale
  Jan 13, 2025

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Tokyo and Osaka might be two of the biggest cities, but the most intense competition is felt somewhere more remote.

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• Japan
• (COK • culture • prefectures • rivalry • society • survey • tourism • travel)

Kyoto reportedly planning to raise hotel guest taxes, create highest accommodation tax in Japan

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 11, 2025

Top tier would charge 10,000 yen per person per night.

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• Japan
• (accommodation tax • hotels • Kyoto • overtourism • ryokan • tourism • travel)

The etiquette rules for visiting Shinto shrines in Japan

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 7, 2025

There’s a whole lot of bowing involved.

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• Japan
• (COK • culture • etiquette • manners • shinto • shrines • tourism • travel)

The top 10 annoying foreign tourist behaviors on trains, as chosen by Japanese people【Survey】

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 30, 2024

Survey finds 10 things to avoid as Japan experiences record-breaking, sometimes patience-testing levels of inbound international tourism.

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• Japan
• (etiquette • manners • overtourism • stations • subways • tourism • trains • transportation • travel)

We sample the deep sea fish and more at this delectable sushi restaurant in Shizuoka Prefecture

• Krista Rogers
  Dec 29, 2024

A visit to this restaurant that specializes in deep sea fish also teaches us that some of our favorite fish live deeper than we previously thought. Read More

• Japan
• (COK • Conveyor belt sushi • food • Ikuna Kamezawa • kaiten sushi • Kaitenzushi • Numazu • restaurants • revolving sushi • Seiji Nakazawa • Shizuoka • SNJO • Suruga Bay • sushi • tourism • travel)

Station of despair: What to do if you get stuck at the end of Tokyo’s Chuo Rapid Line

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 21, 2024

More people spend the night in Otsuki than want to spend the night there.

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• Japan
• (Chuo Line • COK • Otsuki • Otsuki Station • SNJO • station of despair • tourism • train stations • trains • travel • weird)

Japan’s tap-to-pay Suica train card system aims to go tapless with walk-through gates, location data scans

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 12, 2024

JR East wants walk-through gates within the next 10 years.

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• Japan
• (COK • East Japan Railway Company • JR • JR East • Suica • tourism • trains • transportation • travel)

Biking around Tama Lake: A super-easy, super-relaxing afternoon getaway from downtown Tokyo【Pics】

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 10, 2024

Less than an hour away from downtown, this Tokyo Lake is a beautiful and relaxing oasis from busy city life.

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• Japan
• (beautiful • bicycles • bicycling • bike • COK • Lake Tama • nature • rentabike • rental cycle • SNJO • Tama Lake • tourism • travel)

This is Japan’s only shrine with a Shinkansen tunnel underneath it

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 10, 2024

It’s a distinction Akabane Hachiman Shrine didn’t want, but has come to embrace.

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• Japan
• (bullet train • COK • cool • history • shinkansen • shrines • SNJO • tourism • trains • travel)

Japan’s top 10 food travel destination prefectures【Survey】

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 10, 2024

From the north to the south, there are amazing eats waiting in these parts of Japan.

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• Japan
• (COK • food • Japanese food • survey • tourism • travel)

Price to climb Mt. Fuji will double, trail gates will close earlier if new plan is approved

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 9, 2024

New plan would require entry fees for all Mt. Fuji trails and standardize entry time limits.

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• Japan
• (COK • hiking • hiking Mt. Fuji • Mt. Fuji • Mt. Fuji trails • nature • tourism • travel)

Japan’s most popular castle raising ticket prices by up to 200 percent for non-local tourists

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 7, 2024

There’s a little silver lining to Himeji Castle’s new tiered ticket prices, but if you’re not a local, it’s probably going to cost you a whole lot more.

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• Japan
• (castles • COK • culture • Himeji • Himeji Castle • history • tiered pricing • tourism • travel)

Staying one step ahead of the tourist crowds with a visit to Japan’s main Mt. Fuji shrine【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 5, 2024

Quiet culture and beauty are waiting at Fujisan Hongu Sengen Taisha.

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• Japan
• (COK • culture • Fujinomiya • Mt. Fuji • Shizuoka • shrines • SNJO • temples • tourism • travel)

Tokyo’s “commuter boat” is an awesome hidden way to see the city from the water for dirt-cheap

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 3, 2024

Randomly stumbling across a beautiful cruise line that starts in the heart of downtown Tokyo.

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• Japan
• (boats • COK • cool • Nihonbashi • SNJO • tourism • Toyosu • travel)

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