Japanese Spicy Citrus Condiment, better than Wasabi? | Yuzu Kosho
This Japanese condiment, spicy-salty citrus is still unknown to many will change the way you enjoy your food forever. Yuzukosho (柚子胡椒) is by far my favorite Japanese condiment …
Japan’ has 3 million tourists a year brining in a lot of suitcases so Japan Airlines and Sumitomo created a Rental Clothing service for tourists. Yes, you can leave your clothes at home, leave your big suitcase at home and have your clothes sent to your hotel in Japan. It seemed like an interesting concept to me so I decided to try it out – Anywear, Anywhere – on a trip to Hokkaido.
Japanese Square Watermelons are rare and special, only 200-400 are successfully grown every year. Many farmers have failure rates as high as 90% so these watermelons are rare. The history goes back to …
Every year the massive Daibutsu statue at Todaiji in Nara gets a cleaning on August 7th. 200 people from different occupations and skills come together to clean the inside of the Great Hall that includes the 15m / 50 foot high statue. The cleaning event […]
Eating out in Tokyo is an adventure, especially in Shinjuku – Tokyo’s busiest area with over 3.5M people going through Shinjuku Station daily! There are over 1500 restaurants around the station serving food like Sushi, Wagyu Beef, Yakiniku & Shabushabu, Tempura, Yakitori, Ramen and with so many options, it can be very hard to pick a good one, especially if you don’t speak Japanese.
Shipwrecked on a deserted volcanic island in the Pacific, a 14 year old fisherman from Kochi, Japan, survives to live a life that helps change the path of modern Japan! The story of Nakahama “John Mung” Manjiro is
Toys from Japan have always been innovative, from the 1954 Godzilla movie on, character toys sparked the imagination of generations. From cinema and TV, the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s brought us Kamen Rider, Ultraman, Super Sentai and many others still popular today.
80% of Japanese High School students prefer uniforms. It’s the opposite to western countries – but why? Japanese School Uniforms are an important part of the country’s culture – students associate it with their youth. But why do school have different styles, how
Let’s go inside a Japanese Gyoza Factory in the no.1 Gyoza city in Japan – Miyazaki. They make 10,000 Gyoza an hour, 50,000 day! How many can youeat?
There is an event in Japan that has continued uninterrupted for 700 years! Since the age of Samurai, the Soma Nomaoi (相馬野馬追) festival has started summer in Japan’s north since 1323, an authentic look at ancient Japan in
Hiroshima’s modern history is well known, the atomic bomb dropped at 8:15am on August 6, 1945 destroying nearly everything in a 4 mile (7 km) radius. It also took out 108 of the city’s 122 street cars run by Hiroshima Electric Co known as Hiroden.
Japan’s last remote frontier is East Hokkaido is where less than 0.1% of tourists will ever visit. It’s between Kushiro and Nemuro north to Rausu and Shiretoko National Park. Basically zero international tourists come – but we did! So – what’s out here? Wild animals …
Japan is a fantastic place to travel in summer, no where is better than Hokkaido, especially by Motorcycle and RV! If you’re a first-timer on a motorcycle