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“Top 20 Best Breakfast Hotels in Japan 2019” ranking has our mouths watering in anticipation

Krista Rogers
Apr 30, 2019
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With the exception of the #1 spot, one Japanese prefecture is clearly dominating the breakfast game.

Japan
(breakfast • food • gourmet • hotel • Hotel Piena • ranking • TripAdvisor)

Japan travel on a budget: Top 20 free attractions around the country, compiled by TripAdvisor

Oona McGee
Nov 23, 2018

Enjoy some of the best tourist sites and experiences around the country without spending a single yen.

Japan
(beer • cheapo news • factory tours • Kirin • Nikka • tourism • tourist sites • tours • travel • TripAdvisor • whisky)

TripAdvisor reveals Japan’s top ten theme parks

Richard Simmonds
Aug 6, 2018

There’s more to theme parks in Japan than just Disney Resort and Universal Studios; there’s also ninjas, go-karts and looking through your legs.

Japan
(Disneyland • DisneySea • theme parks • travel • TripAdvisor • Universal Studios • USJ)

We try out the fifth most popular restaurant among foreigners in Japan: Italian restaurant Nino

Dale Roll
Jul 8, 2018

Our Japanese-language reporter hadn’t heard of this restaurant, and since it was voted as a top restaurant, she had to check it out.

Japan
(best restaurants • COK • Italian food • Japanese restaurants • Nara • restaurants • SNOJ • travel • TripAdvisor)

Japan’s 10 best cultural experience activities/tours, as chosen by travelers

Casey Baseel
Jun 28, 2018

From traditional tea ceremonies and cooking lessons to relaxing with owls and revving through the streets, these are traveler’s picks for the best things to do while you’re seeing Japan.

Japan
(cooking • culture • food • kimono • Kyoto • lessons • tea ceremony • Tokyo • tours • travel • TripAdvisor)

The top 30 restaurants in Japan, as chosen by foreign visitors

Oona McGee
Jun 26, 2018

In case you’re wondering: Sukiyabashi Jiro is not on the list.

Japan
(best restaurants • eating • food • restaurants • tourism • travel • Trip Advisor • TripAdvisor)

The 10 best ryokan inns in Japan, as chosen by travelers

Casey Baseel
Dec 27, 2017

TripAdvisor releases its rankings of the top 10 places to experience traditional Japanese accommodations during your stay in the country.

Japan
(hot springs • inns • Kyoto • onsen • ryokan • top 10 • travel • TripAdvisor)

Top 30 tourist sites in Japan: the most popular sightseeing spots for overseas visitors

Oona McGee
Jun 12, 2017

From the well-known to the obscure, this year’s annual ranking of top spots has some surprises in store for even the most seasoned travellers.

Japan
(castles • culture • shrines • temples • tourism • tourist sites • travel • TripAdvisor)

The top-ranked restaurants in Japan, Asia and the world!

KK Miller
Oct 24, 2016

These top 10 lists come from our friends at TripAdvisor.

Global
(expensive • food • ranking • restaurants • top 10 • Trip Advisor • TripAdvisor)

Top 20 most popular castles in Japan revealed for 2016

Corey Gold
Aug 26, 2016

How many of the top 20 most popular Japanese castles (according to TripAdvisor) have you been to?

Japan
(castles • culture • Japan • Kyoto • Okinawa • sightseeing • temples • top 20 • travel • trip • TripAdvisor)

Top 10 Japanese factory tours to keep you out of the heat this summer

Oona McGee
Aug 1, 2016

With many offering free admission, these company and factory observation tours have earned a spot in the top ten according to travel website TripAdvisor.

Japan
(factories • factory tours • Japanese companies • Japanese factories • summer • tourism • tourist sites • tourist spots • travel • TripAdvisor)

Temples, views and whiskey — TripAdvisor releases its Top 20 “Free Attractions in Japan” in 2015

Krista Rogers
Nov 3, 2015

Aren’t the words “free entry,” “costs nothing,” and “0 yen” exciting to hear? I think we can all agree that there’s nothing better than a good deal, especially when that deal happens to be completely, 100% free.

While attractions marked as free may set warning bells ringing for some people, Japan has plenty of high-quality, worthwhile places to visit that are such a blast, you actually wouldn’t mind paying money for admission—except that they really do cost absolutely nothing to enter!

Internet, Japan
(attractions • dolphins • free • ranking • top 20 • travel • TripAdvisor)

We try Japan’s top-ranked hotel breakfast for ourselves, find out if it’s worth the trip to Kobe

KK Miller
Jul 24, 2015

For anyone who has stayed in a Japanese hotel, you know that the breakfast can be a little lacking. We aren’t talking about a ryokan, which is a Japanese-style inn that prepares a special Japanese breakfast for all their guests, because those kinds of hotels are in a class of their own. In most hotels, there are rice balls, miso soup and maybe a cabbage salad mix.

Luckily, TripAdvisor Japan compiled a list of the best hotel breakfasts of 2015, and the same hotel breakfast held its spot at number one again this year. That fact piqued our curiosity, so we decided to head to Kobe and try the breakfast for ourselves.

Does it live up to its reputation? Find out after the jump!

Japan
(breakfast • buffet • delicious • Hotel Piena Kobe • top ranked • TripAdvisor)

‘So Glad I Went!’ 2013 Ranking: The Places In Japan That Made an Impact on Foreign Visitors

Oona McGee
May 18, 2013

Every year, seven to eight million foreigners make the trip to Japan. But where do they go sightseeing? And, more importantly, do these places come up to scratch? A list of the most impressive sightseeing spots for the year to date, as ranked by foreign tourists, has been released by the popular travel site TripAdvisor. And while you’d think the top spot might go to a beloved and well-known destination like Kyoto or Tokyo, it actually goes to a simple-looking, modern building in the south-west of the country, in Hiroshima Prefecture.

Japan
(culture • travel • TripAdvisor)

TripAdvisor Japan to Give Away T-Shirts Full of Overseas Obscenities, We Examine Their Meanings

Master Blaster
May 29, 2012

Popular travel website TripAdvisor is giving away 100 free T-Shirts to lucky visitors to their Japanese website. What’s the catch you might ask? They are covered with hand gestures deemed obscene by other countries’ peoples.