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Travel insights from a tour conductor — today's destination: the shrines of Kobe. Kobe has built its name on harbor views and Western-style mansions, yet the city also holds shrines with roots stretching back to legend. This guide covers...

Travel insights from a tour conductor — today's destination: the Mt. Fuji Panoramic Ropeway (~Kawaguchiko~ Fuji-san Panorama Ropeway) in Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture. You may still see its older name, Kawaguchiko Tenjosan Park K...

Travel insights from a tour conductor — today's destination: Yokohama. Close to Haneda Airport and well connected by rail, Yokohama packs a giant waterfront Ferris wheel, a 19th-century trading port, Japan's largest Chinatown and a class...

Travel insights from a tour conductor — today's destination: Togoshi Hachiman Shrine, a quiet neighborhood shrine a short walk from Togoshi-Ginza Shopping Street in Shinagawa, Tokyo. The shrine turns 500 in 2026. Its main hall dates to t...

Travel insights from a tour conductor — today's destination: the Togoshi-ginza Station area in Shinagawa, Tokyo (also written Togoshiginza), a neighbourhood where a 1.3 km shopping street, a black-water bathhouse and a handful of walkabl...

Travel insights from a tour conductor — today's destination: Makaino Farm, a hands-on ranch tucked into the Asagiri Highlands of Fujinomiya, Shizuoka Prefecture. The Asagiri Highlands stretch across the western foot of Mount Fuji and ran...

Travel insights from a tour conductor — today's destination: Fuji Milk Land, a hands-on dairy farm park spread across the Asagiri Plateau in Fujinomiya City, Shizuoka Prefecture. Set at roughly 600 metres above sea level, the park looks ...

Travel insights from a tour conductor — today's destination: Shiraito Falls (白糸の滝), on the western foot of Mount Fuji in Fujinomiya, Shizuoka Prefecture. Curving across a cliff face roughly 20 meters high and 150 meters wide, hundred...

Travel insights from a tour conductor — today's destination: the Ohachi Meguri, the crater-rim circuit at the very top of Mount Fuji, reached from the Shizuoka side of the mountain. At the summit of Mount Fuji sits a crater more than 780...

Travel insights from a tour conductor — today's destination: Sakura-no-Baba Josaien, a lively cluster of shops, food stalls, and a history museum sitting right at the foot of Kumamoto Castle. Built to look like an Edo-period castle town,...