by Angelie | Last updated Oct 21, 2026 | Uncategorized, Japan Area Guide, Japan Itinerary
Fukushima. For many first-time visitors to Japan, the name probably brings one thing to mind before anything else: the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster of March 2011. It is understandable. The disaster changed the prefecture forever, and the people who lived...
by Angelie | Last updated Oct 7, 2026 | Japanese Food & Drinks
Ask ten people what to eat in Kyoto and nine will probably say kaiseki. That is great advice if you have deep pockets and can book a table months in advance. But some of my favourite meals here happen standing at a tiny counter for a bowl of nishin soba topped with a...
by Arden Kreuzer | Last updated Sep 30, 2026 | Japanese Culture & Language
There’s a particular kind of happiness that comes from a melon cream soda. It’s been on kissaten menus for decades: the green that’s a little too green to be natural, but tastes like an afternoon with nowhere else to be. Japanese has a word for that...
by Arden Kreuzer | Last updated Oct 20, 2026 | Autumn in Japan, Japan by Season
Halloween 2026 falls on a Saturday, so the 30th, 31st and the weekend before are all fair game. Below are the Halloween parties in Japan we’d point a friend to this year, from techno basements in Tokyo to a free-in-costume club night in Osaka’s Amerikamura....
by Arden Kreuzer | Last updated Sep 17, 2026 | Tokyo Food & Drinks
I went into my sake tasting in Tokyo assuming I already knew what to expect. I’d enjoyed nihonshu (the Japanese word for sake) long before I moved to Japan, and I figured a tasting session would mostly confirm things I already knew. I was wrong, and happily so....
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