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Japan Rail offers an excellent, reasonably priced ticket for foreigners called the JR pass which can be used on local, express and the...

For many years, traveling abroad meant paying large sums for telephone bills. With WhatsApp and Skype, we seldom have to pay any phone...

Called the Venice of Japan, Kurashiki is a walking city. The kurashiki river flows through it and has a few bridges like those in Venice....

The castle named after the city, Kochi castle, is over 400 years old and still intact with original tower and construction. As I walked...

Founded in the year 815AD, the 11th temple in the pilgrimage is named Fujidera, which means Wisteria. It is surrounded by a dense forest...

On the second day of the pilgrimage, I was up by 4 AM, a vestige of the jetlag, by 6am I was pretty hungry. I decided to go to the Sobe...

The long flight from San Francisco to Tokyo followed by a long ride in the Shinkansen brought me to the Okayama train station. The...

In a Seinfeld episode, I had seen the cupboard like spaces in which the Japanese tourists had spend the night. The capsule hotels in...