Sightseeing & Nature– category –

You’ve just stepped off the shinkansen at Sendai Station, bags in hand, ready to explore Tohoku. But wait — do you need cash? Can you tap your way onto local buses? Will your Australian Visa card work at that tempting ramen spot? J...

Deep in the mountains of Fukushima Prefecture, on the northern slopes of the volcano that changed everything, lies one of Japan’s most extraordinary hidden landscapes: Ura-Bandai, a highland wilderness of over 300 emerald ponds, mi...

Tucked away on the remote border of Aomori and Akita prefectures, Lake Towada is one of Japan’s most breathtaking secrets — a vast, impossibly blue caldera lake ringed by ancient forests that most international visitors never disco...

You don’t need to speak Japanese to have a fantastic trip to Tohoku. Millions of visitors navigate Japan every year without a word of the language. But here’s the thing: even a handful of basic Japanese phrases — attempted wi...

Imagine walking beneath a canopy of 10,000 cherry trees in full bloom, their pale pink petals drifting down like snow onto the glistening waters of the Kitakami River below. Tenshochi Park in Kitakami, Iwate Prefecture, is one of Japan&#...

Japan has over 27,000 hot spring sources — more than almost any other country on Earth — and Tohoku, the northeastern region, is where some of the country’s finest onsen are hiding. Away from the crowds of Hakone and Beppu, Tohoku&...

Lake Tazawa Akita Japan travel guide: discover Japan's deepest lake (423m), the iconic Tatsuko statue, cycling routes, skiing, and tips for every season.

Tohoku harbors a Japan that most tourists never see: a landscape of weathered concrete apartment blocks slowly surrendering to moss, mountain resorts where the corridors last echoed with footsteps decades ago, and rural homesteads where ...

Most travelers fly into Tokyo, spend a week in Kyoto, maybe squeeze in a day trip to Nara — and then go home thinking they’ve “done Japan.” But those who make it northeast, into Tohoku’s rugged mountains, ancient ...

Akita City is one of Japan’s most unfairly overlooked urban destinations — a place where ancient samurai culture, world-renowned sake, extraordinary local cuisine, and some of the warmest people you’ll ever meet combine into ...