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From the beginning of June to the middle of July, Japan experiences its rainy season. Humid days and sudden showers coincide with the appearance of a captivating early summer spectacle: fireflies.
Ippei and Janine are a Tokyo-based husband-and-wife photography duo whose love for Japan’s hidden island gems makes them true experts when it comes to exploring the country’s most off-the-beaten-track destinations. We chat to this power couple about their professional beginnings, family life and they share some insight into the world lesser known.
It's never too early to start planning the perfect summer holiday, and when you are on a budget, preparation is king and key. We share some tips and alternatives to help soften the blow to the wallet when travelling to Japan during this season.
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?
Ask any Japanese person, and they’ll tell you that Aomori, on the northernmost tip of Japan’s main island of Honshu, is most famous as Japan’s ‘apple prefecture’, but there is so much more than apples to Aomori…
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