If you’ve been skipping Amami Oshima on your trips to Japan, you’ve been skipping a beautiful, uncrowded gem.
Kagoshima
It might only be around for a short time, but it’s worth a visit if you’re traveling this spring!
You may not have ever thought about visiting Kagoshima City before, but we bet you will after seeing this video!
We encounter delectable rice balls that could have been made by mom on an island far from Japan’s mainland.
Our reporter discovers the special feature that makes one kind of common fish at this local eatery a slice above even the fatty tuna.
Shizuoka has had a long reign as Japan’s most prolific tea producer–but that reign might be over soon.
Spanning almost the entire length of Japan, this notebook carried the will and determination of train fans, bringing them together in a very special way.
These high school students won’t have any shortage of material for their next summer camp excursion, that’s for sure.
You can practically taste the nostalgia permeating this Taisho-era ryokan in Kagoshima Prefecture.
Japanese social media users fall in love as dog chases down Google Street View car many times its size.
Experience a tour of some of Japan’s best cuisine without even setting foot outside of your hotel with these top 10 breakfast buffet picks.
When you work in a customer-facing role, you can expect to deal with some difficult people from time to time. Being hospitalized by one of them, however, should never be a concern…
Living in Tokyo is pretty awesome. There’s not much you can’t find in the city and there’s always something fun going on — but every once in a while, a video or a photo will grab our attention and make us sigh forlornly thanks to a gorgeous landscape. Sure, there are some great beaches around here, but there’s just something about this drone video of Kagoshima that makes us stop and say wow.
If you’re stuck in the office or at school staring out the window and wishing you were anywhere else, this video will only make it worse. But we guarantee you’ll keep watching it over and over!
Feeling a little too chipper today? Here’s something to bring you back to down to earth: According to Kobe University professor Yoshiyuki Tatsumi and his research staff, there is a one-percent chance that a huge, Japanese-civilization-obliterating volcanic eruption will occur sometime within the next 100 years.
One percent may not sound like very much, but when you hear the kind of eruption the professor’s research refers to, you’ll understand why even that tiny number is much bigger than we’d like.