ChugokuSponsoredThings to Know Hiroshima Bus Terminal – A Guide to Budget Travel Around Hiroshima, Japan How to save money and make travel to destinations around Hiroshima easy and convenient using the Hiroshima Bus Terminal.Todd FongJanuary 14, 2020
ChugokuSightseeingSponsored Your Guide to One Perfect Day in Hiroshima We put together an itinerary of a few of the best things to see, do and eat on a perfect…Todd FongJanuary 14, 2020
ChugokuSightseeingSponsored Miyoshi City – A Day Trip from Hiroshima by Bus A 90 minute morning bus ride, as it turns out, is a great time to think about monsters. Well, not…Todd FongJanuary 14, 2020
ChugokuSightseeingSponsoredThings to Know How To Get to Izumo Taisha Grand Shrine from Hiroshima On a Budget I woke early in my 18th-floor room at Hiroshima's RIHGA Royal Hotel and peered sleepily through the curtains. I was greeted with…Todd FongJanuary 14, 2020
AccommodationChubuSponsored Why My Heart Returns to Iiyama City Why did I choose Iiyama city in Nagano as the place to take my mother visiting from America? The gorgeous…Todd FongDecember 28, 2019
ActivitiesChubuSponsored 3 Ways To Spend A Perfect Day in Iiyama City By the time we boarded the Hokuriku Shinkansen to Nagano, my mother, who was visiting from America, had been touring…Todd FongDecember 28, 2019
CultureKyushuSponsored A Theater and Show Preserving the Past in Yamaga, Kumamoto sponsored by Northern Kumamoto Administrative Headquarters Some say the beauty of Japan lies in the way it attempts to…Todd FongNovember 14, 2019
ActivitiesKyushuSponsored The Rejuvenating Forest of Kikuchi Gorge The forest enveloping Kikuchi Gorge in Kumamoto Prefecture is one of the 44 accredited sites in Japan for shinrin yoku,…Todd FongNovember 14, 2019
AccommodationFoodKyushuSightseeingSponsored Wondrous Waterfalls and Luxury Ryokan in the Waita Onsen Area Call me a waterfall skeptic. Often while browsing through Google Maps, I'll come across a waterfall marked as a landmark…Todd FongNovember 14, 2019
ActivitiesKyushuSponsored Waita Onsen – The Most Relaxing Place You’ve Never Heard Of “I want to feel sunlight on my face…where the streets have no name.” Bono’s words never rang so true as…Todd FongNovember 14, 2019
ActivitiesKyushuSponsored Customize Your Cycling Tour of Kumamoto’s Aso Region sponsored by Northern Kumamoto Administrative Headquarters The strong winds blowing over the Senomoto Highlands had me worried it would make…Todd FongNovember 14, 2019
ActivitiesKyushuSponsored A Kayak Adventure Like No Other in Kumamoto Sponsored by Northern Kumamoto Administrative Headquarters The first question that came to mind as I settled into my kayak was…Todd FongNovember 6, 2019
AccommodationKyushuSponsored Discover the Hidden Onsen Villages of Northern Kumamoto Sponsored by Northern Kumamoto Administrative Headquarters Closing my eyes, I listened only to the summer sounds of the semi (cicadas)…Todd FongNovember 6, 2019
ChugokuFoodSponsored Craft Beer, Whisky, Sake, and More at Okayama’s Doppokan "When life gives you lemons... make sake.” I imagine this could have been the mantra of young Kamezo and Motosaburo…Todd FongSeptember 22, 2019
ChugokuFoodSponsored The History and Culture of Okayama Through Sushi Sponsored by Okayama city, Okayama The tip of his knife sliced through the cucumber, first in a half dozen vertical…Todd FongSeptember 21, 2019
ChugokuSightseeingSponsored Okayama’s Kibitsu Shrine – Get Your Fortune Told by… Rice and Monsters? Sponsored by Okayama city, Okayama The sound was a low but constant hum, startling because it wasn't the sound I…Todd FongSeptember 20, 2019
ChugokuSightseeingSponsored The Summer Beauty of Korakuen, Okayama’s Premier Japanese Garden Sponsored by Okayama city, Okayama I admit it. By the time I had descended from Okayama Castle after viewing the…Todd FongSeptember 19, 2019
ChugokuSightseeingSponsored Day or Night, Okayama Castle is One of the Most Beautiful Castles in Japan Perched on a hill overlooking the Asahi River, Okayama Castle, also known as "Crow Castle" (烏城 U-jō ) once acted as…Todd FongSeptember 18, 2019
KantoShopping Everything You Need To Know About Tokyo’s Antenna Shops Standing outside of Yurakucho Station in central Tokyo, I catch the white flash of a Shinkansen bullet train as it…Todd FongMay 25, 2019
AccommodationKyushuSponsored Peaceful Relaxation in Charming Yunohira Onsen Sponsored by Tourism Oita As we approached the main street of Yunohira Onsen (湯平温泉), I was a bit surprised. Thirty…Todd FongMarch 3, 2019
KyushuSightseeingSponsored Never Disappointed: The Beauty of Nature in Yufu City Sponsored by Tourism Oita Mick Jagger famously lamented in song, "You can't always get what you want." I wonder if…Todd FongMarch 2, 2019
AccommodationKyushuSponsored Food and Friendship at Wakabayashi Farm Stay in Yufu City Sponsored by Tourism Oita Using Google Maps to navigate to a destination in Japan is a bit of an adventure…Todd FongMarch 1, 2019
KyushuSightseeingSponsored Looking Back on Taketa, Oita’s City of Secrets Sponsored by Tourism Oita When arriving in Taketa city for the first time, the best advice I can give you…Todd FongFebruary 28, 2019
KyushuSightseeingSponsored How Oka Castle Became Japan’s Most Beloved Ruins Sponsored by Tourism Oita In 1891, a young man stood, perhaps on the very spot I now stood, and surveyed…Todd FongFebruary 27, 2019
AccommodationKyushuSponsored At Nishinokubo Farm Stay, You Are Like Family Sponsored by Tourism Oita February is a bit of an odd time for a farm stay in Oita Prefecture. According…Todd FongFebruary 26, 2019
AccommodationActivitiesSponsoredTohoku Nyuto Onsen – 7 Akita Hot Springs You Can Enjoy In All 4 Seasons Thankfully, there are several pairs of galoshes (rubber boots) reserved for guests by the door in the rear of Ganiba…Todd FongFebruary 13, 2019
SightseeingSponsoredTohoku Exploring the Legends of Tazawako, Japan’s Deepest Lake Sponsored by Semboku City To reach Gozanoishi, I scrambled down a low snow-covered embankment, with the grace of a newborn…Todd FongFebruary 12, 2019
AccommodationFoodSponsoredTohoku The Farm To Table Cuisine of Akita’s Semboku City This past year, a second ramen shop in Tokyo earned a Michelin star in the latest ratings. Ramen, one of…Todd FongFebruary 11, 2019