Planning group travel to Japan? Learn why tiny restaurants and crowded trains make it difficult, plus expert tips to make ...

Tokyo celebrates summer in July with fireworks, lantern festivals, flower fields and festival food. Wear a yukata and enjoy some of the city’s best events. From traditional matsuri to modern summer ...

Learn how to get a student visa in Japan without a JLPT certificate, who qualifies and which language schools accept alternative assessments. Wondering how to get a student visa in Japan without the ...

From killers to just creepers, here are five bugs you might encounter this summer in Japan and ways to avoid them. After Japan’s rainy season ends, you may want to keep an eye out for some unwanted ...

Want to learn Japanese while watching TV? Here’s how watching NHK Asadora can boost your language proficiency in no time. Are you hitting a wall in your Japanese studies? Maybe it’s not the language.

This collection presents about 50 Renoir works in the Sanno Museum of Art, tracing the painter’s warm, light-filled approach to portraits, figures, and scenes of everyday life. This atmospheric summer ...

If you’ve ever stood in two different lines on two different days just to update your cards—at Immigration, at city hall—you might like this. Starting June 14, 2026, Japan is rolling out the Specified ...

Using only local trains and buses, I spent 48 hours uncovering a side of Izu shaped by volcanoes, ocean views and quiet coastal towns. Just a few hours south of the capital, the Izu Peninsula makes an ...