by Angelie | Last updated Jun 23, 2026 | Japan Experience Guides
Most people outside Japan grow up with a fairly cartoonish idea of what samurai and ninja actually were. Samurai become noble swordsmen in slow motion films, all silence and honour. Ninja become black clad shadows who can apparently vanish into smoke. I had the same...
by Rowan | Last updated Jun 18, 2026 | Japan Experience Guides
If you’re thinking about booking a knife-making experience during your Japan trip, we get it. It has all the ingredients of a memorable travel experience: craft, history, a hands-on activity, and a souvenir to take home. However, search “knife-making” on a booking...
by Angelie | Last updated Jun 17, 2026 | Japan Experience Guides, Japan Cultural Experiences
When you picture Japan, the geisha is probably one of the first things that come to mind. If the embarrassing videos of oblivious tourists hounding them along the streets of Kyoto are anything to go by, an encounter is clearly high on the list of things travellers...
by Jessica | Last updated Jun 29, 2026 | Japan Travel
As a Japan-based travel agency, we know that the experience of travelling anywhere in the world as a member of the LGBTQIA+ community comes with more complications than it should. There are additional safety considerations, concerns around public perception, and...
by Angelie | Last updated Jun 15, 2026 | Japan Cultural Experiences, Japan Experience Guides
Living in Japan for a decade now, I would love to tell you that sumo is completely mundane to me already. I would love to say I attend tournaments every other weekend, and act as though bumping into massive professional athletes on the street is a completely normal...
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