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Shimane’s hidden travel sites, where you can escape the crowds and enjoy traditional Japan

• Oona McGee
  Apr 26, 2025
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Sake, shrines and onsen hot springs await you at beautiful destinations that are yet to be discovered by overseas tourists.

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• 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)

Hey, Japanese taxi driver! Take us to the best sakura site in Yamanashi Prefecture!

• Oona McGee
  Apr 18, 2025

Local tip-off takes us to a hanami cherry blossom viewing site that’s yet to be discovered by overseas tourists.

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• Japan
• (cherry blossoms • COK • flower viewing • hanami • Hey Japanese taxi driver • hidden gems • off the beaten path • off the beaten track • peach blossoms • sakura • SNJO • spring • taxi • taxis • tourist sites • travel • Yamanashi • Yamanashi Prefecture)

This secret spring flower-viewing spot in Japan is yet to be discovered by international tourists

• Oona McGee
  Apr 11, 2025

Escape the crowds at this spectacular hidden “togenkyo”.

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• (cherry blossoms • COK • flower viewing • flowers • Fuefuki • hanami • hidden gems • Peach • peach blossoms • sakura • SNJO • Togenkyo • tourist sites • travel • Yamanashi • Yamanashi Prefecture)

Visiting the top sakura site in Kanto…without any planning

• Oona McGee
  Apr 9, 2025

What could go wrong?

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• (cherry blossoms • Gongendo • hanami • Saitama • sakura • SNJO • spring • tourist sites • travel)

Sakura Ride Plan: A new way to see the best cherry blossom sites in Tokyo

• Oona McGee
  Apr 8, 2025

Hanami flower-viewing doesn’t get much better than this.

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• (beautiful • cars • cherry blossoms • hanami • sakura • SNJO • taxi tour • taxis • Tokyo • tourist sites)

Tokyo sakura report: Why Shinjuku Gyoen beats Ueno Park for hanami cherry blossom viewing

• Oona McGee
  Mar 29, 2025

Escape the tourist crowds at this famous garden in the middle of Tokyo.

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• (beautiful • cherry blossoms • gardens • hanami • parks • sakura • Shinjuku Gyoen • SNJO • Tokyo • tourist sites • Ueno Park)

Shirasu ice cream at top Japanese tourist spot terrifies some, delights others

• Oona McGee
  Mar 23, 2025

Can ice cream sweeten the deal of eating dozens of baby sardines as their eyes stare at you?

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• Japan
• (Enoshima • fish • food • ice cream • local specialties • restaurants • shirasu • SNJO • specialty • specialty food • sweets • taste test • tourist sites • weird food • werid • whitebait)

Department store rooftop in Tokyo is a secret oasis above the city

• Oona McGee
  Mar 22, 2025

One of the best hideouts in Tokyo is absolutely free…for those who know where to find it.

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• (COK • department store • department store rooftop • food • gardens • Ginza • Ginza Mitsukoshi • Mitsukoshi • restaurants • rooftop • shrines • SNJO • Tokyo • tourist sites)

Dinner in the Sky arrives in Tokyo, serves meals with a unique view above the city

• Oona McGee
  Mar 13, 2025

Dangle your feet in the air as you enjoy a modern Japanese bento at this aerial restaurant.

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• (aerial restaurant • cool • Dinner in the Sky • news • restaurants • things to do in Tokyo • Tokyo • tourist sites • travel)

Mt Fuji Radar Dome Museum puts you inside a blizzard at the summit

• Oona McGee
  Feb 27, 2025

A simulation for the summit-curious that’ll literally blow you away.

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• Japan
• (experiences • extreme weather • Fuji • hiking • Japan experiences • mountain climbing • Mt Fuji Radar • Mt Fuji Radar Dome • Mt. Fuji • simulation • SNJO • tourist sites • travel • weather • Yamanashi)

Ruru Cafe Shibuya wows customers by serving coffee and sweets on unique water tables

• Oona McGee
  Feb 7, 2025

A new Tokyo hotspot, where your meal looks like it’s floating on water.

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• (cafes • COK • cool • cool japan • design • drinks • dry landscape • Japanese rock garden • Japanese sweets • Kare Sansui • latte • Nure Sansui • review • Ruru • Ruru Shibuya • Shibuya • Shibuya Sakura Stage • SNJO • sweets • Tokyo • tourist sites • travel • Zen • zen garden)

Tourists in Kyoto cause chaos at railway crossing near Fushimi Inari Taisha

• SoraNews24
  Feb 4, 2025

Overtourism leads to frightening scenes at a busy train crossing.

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• (Fushimi • Fushimi Inari • Fushimi Inari Shrine • Fushimi Inari Taisha • Kyoto • news • overtourism • Railway Crossings • ryokan • tour guide • tourism • tourist sites • tourists • travel)

Forbidden area at Japanese mountaintop shrine opens to the public for first time in 400 years

• Oona McGee
  Nov 21, 2024

Be one of the first outsiders in centuries to enter this secret sacred area.

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• Japan
• (amazing • architecture • COK • culture • japanese architecture • Japanese shrine • Shizuoka • shogun • shogunate • shrine • shrines • SNJO • Tokugawa Ieyasu • tourism • tourist sites • travel)

Flying dango: Unique tourist site where Japanese sweets are flown to you over a gorge

• Oona McGee
  Nov 16, 2024

A touching memory that’ll last a lifetime. 

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• Japan
• (beautiful • COK • Cuckoo Dango • dango • Flying Dango • Hana Yori Dango • Iwate • Japanese sweets • Mountains • nature • off the beaten path • outdoors • SNJO • sweets • tourist sites • travel • unique • unusual • weird)

Meet the kind Japanese grandpa who takes photos for tourists at the Hachiko statue in Shibuya

• Oona McGee
  Oct 19, 2024

Inspiring individual makes a great impression on foreign tourists.

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• (COK • Hachiko • Hachiko statue • interview • Japanese people • ojiisan • photos • Seiji Nakazawa • Shibuya • Shibuya Station • SNJO • society • Tokyo • tourism • tourist site • tourist sites • tourists)

Foreign tourist angers locals for doing pull-ups on torii gate at shrine in Japan

• SoraNews24
  Oct 17, 2024

Sacred sites are not the place for gymnastics.

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• (bad behavior • bad foreigners • foreign tourists • foreigners in Japan • meiwaku gaikokujin • news • nuisance foreigner • shrines • tourism • tourist sites • tourists)

Eat Japanese prison food at this unique cafeteria in Abashiri

• Oona McGee
  Sep 29, 2024

A taste of incarceration that’ll leave you with a new appreciation for the everyday.

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• (Abashiri • Abashiri Prison • anime • film • food • Golden Kamuy • historical • Hokkaido • jail • Japanese food • katsudon • manga • museums • prison • prison food • prisons • restaurants • tourism • tourist sites • travel)

New Japanese Food Sample Making Cafe opens in Asakusa, Tokyo

• Oona McGee
  Sep 24, 2024

A unique tourist experience where you can eat Japanese food…and take it home with you to enjoy forever as a hyper-realistic food sample.

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• Japan
• (Asakusa • cafes • cute • food • food sample • food samples • Japanese food • Japanese souvenirs • plastic food samples • restaurants • souvenirs • themed cafe • Tokyo • tourist sites • travel)

World’s only double-helix wooden structure, Aizu Sazaedo, is mysterious both outside and inside

• Oona McGee
  Sep 12, 2024

Helix maze built at a now-lost Japanese temple is a stunning architectural marvel.

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• Japan
• (Aizu • Aizu Sazaedo • amazing • architecture • Buddhism • COK • double helix building • Fukushima • japanese architecture • SNJO • temples • tourism • tourist sites • travel • wooden buildings)

Kyoto becomes City of Yokai, with Night Parade of One Hundred Demons festival this autumn

• Oona McGee
  Sep 4, 2024

Japan’s supernatural world springs to life in a special Hyakki Yagyo event you won’t want to miss. 

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• Japan
• (cool • crazy • culture • demons • ghosts • Hyakki Yagyo • Kyoto • monsters • parade • scary • Toei Kyoto Studio Park • tourist sites • travel • video • yokai)

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