Welcome to How I Holiday, a series of travel stories and recommendations shared by friends of Urban List from Aotearoa and ...

RICE is essential to Japanese culture, tradition and politics. People take pride in the oval- shaped sticky Japonica grain, which is still a staple even though total consumption has fallen over the ...

Bandai is opening a new Hobby museum in Shizuoka, Japan, on 2 September this year, allowing visitors to design their own ...

The birthplace of karate also holds a deeply rooted connection to spirituality and nature. Here’s how to plan a visit to this ...

In a bid to attract visitors frustrated by Japan’s crowds, one coastal corner of Fukui prefecture offers genuine connection ...

Japan’s sidewalk restaurants, known as “yatai,” have almost entirely disappeared—except in Fukuoka, where they’ve undergone a ...

Go off the tourist track and into the heart of Japan. Here are 10 hidden gems to visit in Japan, according to a local.

Benesse Art Site Naoshima, a sprawling art constellation on three islands, adds a 10th museum by the star architect Tadao ...

According to statistics from the Japan National Tourism Organization, the number of foreign visitors plummeted between 2020 and 2022 due to the COVID-19 pandemic but rebounded sharply in 2023.

According to the preliminary figures from the Japan Tourism Agency, total overnight stays in the prefecture reached around 3.54 million in 2024, up 9 percent from the previous year―outpacing the ...

This beautiful island in Japan is wildly underrated, considering how much it has to offer travelers in terms of food, natural ...