New Accommodation Tax in Kyoto: March 1, 2026

Moss Matters in Japanese Gardens, it is not a minor detail. In many places, it is the calm surface that allows rock, water, and maple to feel like one scene

Yamakoshi Mushigame is Koi Genesis because from those same ponds came Yamakoshi’s other world‑shaping legacy, nishikigoi—aka koi. Japanese Koi Farms began here in Yamakoshi.

Welcome to a collection of Official Tourism Travel Links Japan. These links to Japanese Islands, Cities and Prefectures will make your visit to Japan easier.

Onn Japanese sweet shop or Wagashi in the Gokomachi district of Kyoto opened late 2023 by owner Suzuka Yamaoka. The goal was to provide an experience that warms both the body and soul of it’s customers.

The streets of Tokyo are vibrant, modern, and fluid. For photographers and people watchers alike, Tokyo Streets 'r' Cinema Streets like an all-you-can-eat buffet of images to be made.

Japan has numerous abandoned shrines, or haikyo, as they’re referred to. Often found in rural areas and overgrown mountainsides, they are mostly the result of depopulation, modernization, or disaster. Abandoned Oiwa Shrine, Southeast of Kyoto is the example I’ve shared here.

Many think of Tokyo, being in Japan, and equate an architectural style more reminiscent of 'Old' Japan. The reality is that Tokyo is a modern city, rebuilt extensively after World War II. While Tokyo does still hold onto some it's Edo Period, pre-war heritage especially at Temples and Shrines for the most part it sets trends for modern design.

Today, Tokyo's Kitchen, Tsukiji Outer Market still describes itself as Japan’s “Food Town,” where wholesale and retail shops share the streets with restaurants, and where new culinary trends are “born” in the middle of old routines.

High on the forested slopes of Mount Mitaki, northwest of central Hiroshima, stands Mitaki-dera: Hiroshima's Mountain Temple, and one of western Japan’s most atmospheric Buddhist temples.

This is The National Art Center, Tokyo (NACT), one of Japan’s largest exhibition spaces, and a very different kind of national museum.

Within Niigata Prefecture’s Chuetsu region, the Hoshitouge Terraced Rice Fields of Tokamachi unfold across steep hillsides like a mosaic art piece. With over 200 paddies carved into the slopes, these terraces are a testament to centuries of agricultural ingenuity and community resilience.