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Nikko’s famous Kegon no Taki waterfall bored our reporter on his class trip, but it’s a different story now that he’s grown up.
If you’re looking for a very Japanese experience, this is a place you’ll need to put on the itinerary.
We discover an unforgettable dish in the city that boasts the highest number of ramen joints per 100,000 people in Japan.
A gyoza eatery behind a closed game arcade in the basement of a Mega Don Quijote–that doesn’t sound spooky at all…
Does this mean the priest’s purification ritual has placated the beast? Or is it an omen of something else to come?
It’s a gyoza town, but what happens when you ask for a restaurant that’s got other great good too?
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