Fusion of tradition and contemporary styles
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I have lost count of how many friends have texted me from Narita or Haneda with the same panicked question: &#…
Let me tell you about the night I fell in love with izakaya. I had been in Japan for about two weeks, and a co…
I need to be upfront about something: the moment I publish this article, these places become slightly less hid…
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The Shikoku Pilgrimage is one of the most remarkable walking routes in the world, and almost nobody outside Ja…
The first wagashi I ever really noticed was at a tea house in Kanazawa. The server placed a small pink sweet o…
This episode is filmed in the most Japanese and Japanese-American populated city in the United States, Los Angels, California.