Culture & History
Sado Island: Gold Mines, Noh Theater & Japan’s Former Place of Exile
Sado Island (佐渡島) — Japan's sixth-largest island, 45 km off the Niigata coast in the Sea of Japan…
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Nature & Outdoors
Sea of Japan vs Pacific Coast: Why Japan’s Two Coastlines Feel Like Different Countries
Japan's main islands sit between two fundamentally different bodies of water — the Sea of Japan (日本海) to…
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Nature & Outdoors
Japan’s Hidden Islands (離島): A Guide to the Remote Islands Worth the Detour
Japan consists of approximately 14,125 islands (according to a 2023 government recount using modern satellite mapping), of which…
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Hotels
Farm Stay (農泊, Nouhaku) in Japan: How to Experience Rural Life as a Guest
Japan's cities are extraordinary. But Japan's rural areas — the satoyama (里山) landscape of rice paddies, mountain villages,…
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