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Heaven from hells: The sulfuric pleasure of Unzen Onsen
Located deep within Kyushu’s Shimabara Peninsula, this hot spring town offers dramatic scenery worth the effort it takes to get there.
LIFE / Travel
Osaka Expo-bound? Take your pick of the city’s new luxury hotels.
Increased capacity makes lodging a buyer’s market, as intense competition keeps prices down and encourages hotels to differentiate themselves from the pack.
LIFE / Travel
Traveling the Three-Star Road, the tourist route made from thin air
Linking mountainous Matsumoto and coastal Kanazawa, this clunkily named route includes nonetheless fantastic sites.
LIFE / Travel
Mar 24, 2025
World’s first public bonsai museum reopens after renovations
By Erik Augustin Palm
After a five-month refurbishment, the Omiya Bonsai Art Museum believes it’s better suited to care for its trees during intensifying summers.
LIFE / Travel
Mar 15, 2025
‘Resorts for the spirit’: Touring Kagawa’s art and architecture
By Jennifer Pastore
The seaside cities of Takamatsu and Marugame are home to a heritage of beauty, from the monolithic to the modern.
LIFE / Travel
Mar 3, 2025
Stories from behind the bar at Shinjuku's Golden Gai
By Mika Inoue
Once the home of Tokyo's black market, this 6,600 sq. meter district has nearly 300 tiny bars packed into it.
LIFE / Travel
Mar 1, 2025
Aboard Japan’s most luxurious train, the journey is the destination
By Erik Augustin Palm
For those with yen to burn, the Seven Stars in Kyushu is one of the most luxurious ways to experience some of southern Japan’s best hidden gems.
LIFE / Travel
Feb 22, 2025
Bear skulls and pit dwellings: Hokkaido aims to sell ancient history
By Justin Randall
The Okhostk culture thrived in northern Hokkaido from the fifth to ninth centuries and may have provided the Ainu with some of their best-known rituals.
LIFE / Travel
Feb 22, 2025
Shimane and Tottori to bewitch tourists with supernatural charms
By Zoria Petkoska
The two prefectures are leaning on spooky folklore to draw more travelers.
LIFE / Travel
Jan 24, 2025
Global tourism is back to pre-COVID highs
By Daniel Silva
Global tourism generated nearly $1.6 trillion (about ¥250 trillion) in 2024, about 3% more than the previous year and 4% more than in 2019.

Japan and U.S. to hold joint patrol after Okinawa sexual assaults
Can anyone deal with Trump better than Ishiba?
Ishiba warns of divided world at futuristic Osaka Expo opening ceremony
Why Trump’s dream of made-in-the-USA iPhones isn’t going to happen
A trip to remember: Japan answers the demand for curated luxury travel
Heaven from hells: The sulfuric pleasure of Unzen Onsen
How to spend the perfect day in Hiroo, Tokyo’s expat enclave
A trip to remember: Japan answers the demand for curated luxury travel
Can a World Expo still matter? Japan is about to find out.

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Can a World Expo still matter? Japan is about to find out.
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