AiTO conference 2009: debate, discussion, curry, beer and a glorious cricketing failure

Working in travel is a job with many benefits. Our job here at InsideJapan Tours basically boils down to providing amazing experiences for people and making people happy, which is why I wanted to work in travel in the first place. However, every now and again I have the opportunity myself to travel to new [...]

Stocktaking the weird: A walk around Nakano Broadway

Nakano Broadway sells nothing useful. Like Akihabara, its east Tokyo rival, it sells large quantities of bizarre manga and anime spin-off novelty items. Unlike Akihabara, which at least manages to sell some useful things, (TVs, cameras, computers, etc) in Nakano its all useless. Much of the bin fodder they peddle isn’t even related to manga [...]

A pre-soak soaking – hiking in the rain to Kurama Onsen

Sunday 1st November 2009: Another month, another bath! What better way to celebrate the turning of the calendar from October to November than a journey out to visit an onsen that has long captured my imagination and yet in 10 years of visiting Japan I had failed to venture to: Kurama. Located at the end [...]

Standing on the top of Japan

As those long winter nights begin to draw in back in the UK, today we hark back to the heady days of this summer when the Inside Japan Tours’ team sweated their way round Japan and, on more than one occasion, up the demanding slopes of Mt. Fuji to stand on the top of Japan. [...]

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