For her latest book, 150 Tea Houses You Need to Visit Before You Die, writer and editor Léa Teuscher – a long-time Wallpaper* staffer ... Sourced from Japanese heritage farms in Uji and leading tea ...

SHIZUOKA, Japan -- The town office of Higashiizu, along a peninsula southwest of Tokyo well known for its hot springs, has come up with a novel approach to attracting tourists, unstaffed souvenir ...

Masamori Tsuboi, managing director of JA Enshu Yumesaki, which falls under the Japan Agricultural Cooperative, believes Shizuoka lags behind Kagoshima when it comes to reinvention. "It is a time ...

The central Japanese prefecture of Shizuoka, which has a trail to Mount Fuji, has enacted an ordinance amid risky behavior by some climbers. The new ordinance requires each hiker to pay an ...

(Kyodo) SHIZUOKA, Japan (Kyodo) -- A roughly six-meter-tall Evangelion Unit 01 statue made its appearance in Hamamatsu, central Japan, on Sunday as part of a local government tourism campaign ...

The book from Frame Publishers presents all these and more, in a series of case studies that showcases the practice's elegant balance of innovation and simplicity, tapping into Japan's traditions and ...

Farmers pick tea leaves in the city of Shizuoka's Suruga Ward ... the strict tariffs on China could serve as a tailwind for the Japanese tea industry. (Mainichi/Koichi Tanno) High tariff measures ...

Despite an overall decrease in Mount Fuji climbers this summer, Shizuoka Prefecture has reported a significant increase in visitors to its three climbing routes. The Fujinomiya, Subashiri and ...

TOKYO -- A series of unique bay windows at a hotel in the Japanese capital look like portable gaming consoles that were popular in the late 1980s or cathode-ray tube TVs stacked up. This striking ...

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