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Japan Nominated Again in the Wanderlust Reader Travel Awards 2024!

Aug. 5, 2024

JNTO - Japan National Tourism Organization

We are excited to announce that Japan has been nominated again for ‘Most Desirable Country - Rest of The World’ at the 2024 edition of the Wanderlust Travel Awards. Voting is open until 18th October, 2024, make sure to cast your vote here!

10 Famous Japanese Fire Festivals

Jan. 6, 2023

JNTO - Japan National Tourism Organization

It’s a New Year and with a good chuck of Japan's spectacular fire festivals held in January, we can take a look at 10 of the most famous from across the country and months to come. Permission to fire away!

Japan's speediest trains and new bullet train routes from 2022

Sept. 14, 2022

Ewelina Turek

Japan keeps extending its highly developed train connections and invests in new trains. Passengers can now safely travel on a bullet train during earthquakes, and there are currently tests underway of even faster bullet trains ALFA-X as well as driverless bullet trains! Take a look at four new exciting routes and what we can do around them starting with the newest one set to open next autumn...

Bullet Train BTS: 6 interesting Japan facts behind the blockbuster movie

Aug. 8, 2022

Matthew Joslin

By now you're probably aware of 2022's big summer blockbuster zipping onto cinema screens all over the UK from August 3rd. While the star-studded film is storming UK cinemas, we thought we'd help you wow your friends with film trivia and take you through some BTS facts, the book the film was based on and the tidbits of Japanese culture scattered throughout the Bullet Train's 2 hour and 30 minute runtime!

Japan at 300km per hour: Discover the locations featured in the Bullet Train movie

July 26, 2022

Matthew Joslin

Bullet Train, the film adaptation of Kotaro Isaka's pulse-pounding novel of the same name, has now arrived and is ready for boarding! While the train races its way from Tokyo to Kyoto we do get a small glimpse at some of the incredible places the film hurtles past at each of the stations it stops at en route from Tokyo to Kyoto but what is there to see and do in the destinations where the film is set?

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