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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 »

Baby loves Tokyo

Posted on 5 December, 2011 by jimbojapan

I lived in Japan for four years and have travelled there many many times over the last 7 years since living back in the UK, but this was the first time to travel as a family – Me (James), Vanessa and little Max. We decided to travel to New Zealand to see family and thought [...]

Filed under: Culture, Family Holiday, Sightseeing | Tagged: 'family holiday', Culture, InsideJapan Tours, Japan, Japanese culture, Sightseeing, tokyo, Travel | 5 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 »

Fushimi Inari

Posted on 29 October, 2011 by jimbojapan

One of our guides in Kyoto is the very lovely and talented Ayako Kiyono san. Kiyono san knows her stuff when it comes to Kyoto and has shown hundreds of our travellers around the old Imperial capital. Kiyono san wanted to write about one of her favourite places…. Fushimi Inari – Kyoto The head quarter [...]

Filed under: Culture, Sightseeing | Tagged: Buddhism, Culture, Fushimi Inari, Japan, Kyoto, Shinto, shrine, Tori | 2 Comments »

Ise and the spirit of Japan

Posted on 21 October, 2011 by tomointokyo

Shall I have the wagyu burger? It`s a tough decision. I am 5 minutes walk from the main shrine at Ise. Strolling the back streets outside, I have already eaten a bowl of chubby Ise udon noodles, a minced pork slice and a shark meat onigiri. Conspicuous consumption is addictive. And fun. So joining the spirit of the insatiable crowds, I tuck in.

Filed under: Sightseeing | Tagged: ise, ise jingu, ise shrine, japan pilgrimage, naiku, oharaimachi, okageyokocho, sacred sites japan | 6 Comments »

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 »

Hitting the target in Takayama

Posted on 23 September, 2011 by tomointokyo

Takayama is a small town in the foothills of the Japan Alps. Far from the sea and any major cities, for many foreign visitors, a stay in this remote river town is their only chance to see rural Japan.

Filed under: Culture, Sightseeing | Tagged: asahimachi, Center4, Don cafe, mini archery, nightlife Takayama, Red Hill, sake brewery, sake sampling, takayama | 4 Comments »

The day I met the Emperor

Posted on 22 September, 2011 by KyotoKid

I once met the Emperor of Japan! Well, kind of… At least he and his wife rode past me in a car and waved.

Filed under: Culture, Sightseeing | Tagged: akihito, emperor, Empress, imperial palace, Michiko, Sightseeing, tokyo | 3 Comments »

Trip Feedback through Haiku Poetry

Posted on 20 September, 2011 by jimbojapan

As with all of the InsideJapan Tour leaders, Steve Parker brings his own skills, knowledge and expertise to a group tour of Japan. A trip across Japan with Steve never fails to be inspiring, but our man has been bringing out the poetic side of travellers….after a couple of drinks of course. Here’s his latest [...]

Filed under: Culture, Sightseeing | Tagged: 'Japan tour', 'Japanese poetry' 'Japan unmasked', haiku, poetry | 9 Comments »

The cats that got the Shinjuku cream

Posted on 1 September, 2011 by KyotoKid

On my last trip to Japan I wanted to do something really, well, Japanese… Something a bit different, something very modern and something I could only find in Japan. So tour leader Liam volunteered to show me Shinjuku’s finest cat cafe.

Filed under: Culture, Sightseeing | Tagged: cate cafe, cats, coffee, Japanese culture, shinjuku, tour leader | 8 Comments »

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