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Family festival fun and remembering the tsunami

Posted on 8 December, 2011 by jimbojapan

This is the final instalment from Uday and the Kanitkar family who travelled to the Tohoku region for the ‘Big Three’ festivals in August this year. By the way, we haven’t mentioned that before the family had headed north for the large dose of festival action, they had already been in the cultural capital of [...]

Filed under: Culture, Events, Family Holiday, March 11th Tsunami, Sightseeing | Tagged: 'family holiday', Culture, earthquake, Festival, Festivals, Japan, Japanese culture, Matsushima, Nebuta, Sendai, Sightseeing, Tanabata, Tohoku, tsunami | 2 Comments »

More family festival fun

Posted on 30 November, 2011 by jimbojapan

An earlier post featured Uday and his family who travelled to the Tohoku region in summer to witness some of the biggest festivals in Japan. After supplying some great photos from their time at the Kanto festival in Akita, Uday has followed it up with a look at the Neputa festival in Hirosaki – not [...]

Filed under: Culture, Events, Sightseeing | Tagged: 'Neputa', 'travelling', Festival, Festivals, Japan, Japanese culture, Sightseeing, Tohoku | 1 Comment »

Festival fun and matsuri madness for the family!

Posted on 18 October, 2011 by jimbojapan

I often get jealous of the things that our customers do. We arrange for people to have drinks with a Geisha, spend a day with a master sword smith, hike with wild bear in the alps, dive with Manta Ray in the tropics and snow board perfect powder in the north to name a few [...]

Filed under: Culture, Events, Sightseeing | Tagged: 'Japanese festivals' Tohoku, 'Kanto festival', 'Nebuta festval', Akita, Aomori, Festivals, Japanese, Japanese culture, Sendai, Tanabata | 4 Comments »

Tokyo Game Show – Gamer 2

Posted on 18 September, 2011 by Axel

I always knew something was wrong with me. During childhood already, classmates would laugh at me because my pastimes were somewhat different from a “normal” boy. When I reached teenage years, mom and dad couldn’t deny anymore when they saw the sort of friends I used to bring back home. I traveled the world and the seven [...]

Filed under: Culture, Events, Opinion | Tagged: anime, Japan, japanese geek, otaku, tokyo game show | 4 Comments »

Boulder Backroads Half Marathon- Raising Money for Japan!

Posted on 6 September, 2011 by matecc

In an attempt to raise a little bit more money for the Japan Relief fund, a number of us at IJT signed up to take on the challenge of a Half Marathon. The Bristol Crew has one more week to get their legs ready, but mine happened to be today, in the form of the [...]

Filed under: Events, IJT Company News, Uncategorized | 4 Comments »

January Is The New April

Posted on 21 July, 2011 by JKB

Beautiful cherry blossom in spring, dramatic leaves in autumn – why travel to Japan at any other time?! Admittedly the hanami ‘cherry blossom viewing’ parties in April are great fun, and the weather is lovely and warm in November, but for me (this week at least) January is my new favourite month in Japan. Whilst [...]

Filed under: Culture, Events | Tagged: 'Best time of year to travel to Japan', 'naked man festival'. sumo. 'Mt. Fuji', 'New year party', 'Travel in Japan', Festivals, Japan | 5 Comments »

At Last – A Reason to Rejoice

Posted on 20 July, 2011 by jimbojapan

The Japanese people were delivered a sporting achievement to fill their hearts with pride and joy in the early hours of Monday morning. After all of the troubles and woes of the past months, it offered a much needed release and allowed expression of sheer elation, as the women’s national team triumphed at the football [...]

Filed under: Culture, Events, Opinion | Tagged: 'Japan v USA', 'Japanese womens world cup team', 'Womens World Cup final 2011', Japan, Nadeshiko | 2 Comments »

A big day out at the sumo in Tokyo

Posted on 3 June, 2011 by jimbojapan

There has been a lot of controversy surrounding the traditional sport of Sumo of late. There was match fixing involving players and officials which led to the extreme measure of cancelling the Spring bassho (tournament) in Osaka. These have been dark days for the Nihon Sumo Kyokai and the ancient sport synonymous with Japan and [...]

Filed under: Culture, Events | Tagged: 'day out in Tokyo', 'Japanese Sport', Culture, sumo, tokyo | 2 Comments »

Worth the wait? Osaka Station new building finally opens

Posted on 4 May, 2011 by AJD

It’s been a long time coming but finally, after 7 years, the new building at JR Osaka Station in the Umeda district of the city, is open! InsideJapan HQ received the following hot of the press from our very own guide in Osaka, Ayako Kiyono. Many thanks to Kiyono-san for this up to the information.

Filed under: Events | Tagged: Osaka, Stations, Trains | 1 Comment »

More radiation in Cornwall or Tokyo?

Posted on 6 April, 2011 by Superfatsamurai

Although the Fukushima Plant continues make headlines, Bob Bury, the former clinical lead for the U.K.’s Royal College of Radiologists, says that a number of countries and cities around the world have naturally occurring radiation levels that exceed Tokyo’s, even during this time of crisis. Meanwhile, the U.K. Health Protection Agency estimates that the average [...]

Filed under: Culture, Events, Sightseeing | Tagged: cherry blossom, Cornwall, InsideJapan Tours, tokyo | 4 Comments »

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