AccommodationActivitiesChubuSponsored Enjoy a Snowy Family Holiday in Iiyama City Growing up in the San Francisco Bay Area, I didn't see my first snow until I was five-years-old. Early in…Todd FongMarch 20, 2021
ChubuFoodSponsored Dining Around A Hotpot in Iiyama’s Igloo Village Our bellies warm and sated, we gazed up at the heavens full of stars through the crisp Nagano night air,…Todd FongMarch 17, 2020
ActivitiesChubuSponsored Where Can You Do Snow Cycling in Japan? There will come a time in a person's life when the rush of adrenaline to the body overcomes their common…Todd FongMarch 17, 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
AccommodationChubuSponsored Enjoying Iiyama City’s Locally Sourced Cuisine in Nagano Prefecture Sponsored by Shinshu-Iiyama Tourism Bureau It seemed like a simple question: where could I go to catch Shinshu Salmon? As one…Todd FongDecember 3, 2018
ChubuSightseeingSponsored Among the Ancients: Exploring the Sacred Places of Iiyama and Kosuge, Nagano Sponsored by Shinshu-Iiyama Tourism Bureau Ascent to Kosuge Shrine The cedar trees were impossibly straight, like huge iron pipes driven into…Todd FongNovember 27, 2018
ActivitiesChubuSponsored Bathed in Fall Colors on The Shin-etsu Trail Standing under the yellow canopy of beech trees on the Shin-etsu Trail as I lifted my camera to my eye,…Todd FongNovember 23, 2018
ChubuSightseeingSponsored Iiyama – “Snow Country’s Little Kyoto” and its Gorgeous Spring Scenery! Is it just me or does snow make everything more magical? Maybe it's because, as an Australian, I never had…Luka JacksonMarch 28, 2017