by Jessica | Last updated Jul 14, 2026 | Summer in Japan, Tokyo Experience Guides
Visiting Tokyo during the summer can be amazing. There are non-stop festivals and fireworks displays, and who doesn’t love eating kakigouri (shaved ice) on a hot afternoon in the sun? But we also know the season can be a challenge. Let’s be honest, the weather is...
by Angelie | Last updated Jul 10, 2026 | Japan Travel
Kyoto tends to get filed under “serious” travel, the place you go for history and culture rather than fun, and I think that reputation puts a lot of parents off before they have even looked properly. Almost every year we visit family in Osaka over the...
by Angelie | Last updated Jul 8, 2026 | Japan Travel
When parents start researching things to do in Japan with kids for their trip, they usually end up frustrated, staring at a list of temples and shrines that look stunning in photographs but are absolute torture for an energetic five-year-old. Living in Japan and...
by Angelie | Last updated Jul 3, 2026 | Japan Travel
Most people planning a trip to Japan build their route around cities. Tokyo, then Kyoto, maybe Osaka, with a day trip to Nara squeezed in for the deer. It works, and it is a fine trip, I will not pretend otherwise. But somewhere around the third temple in a row, a lot...
by Rowan | Last updated Jul 2, 2026 | Japan Experience Guides
If your ideal afternoon looks less like a packed sightseeing list and more like a certain tea-loving uncle from Avatar finding his happy place, you’re booking the right thing. A Japanese tea ceremony is calm, centuries-old, a little ceremonial, and ends with a...
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