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Today, people flock to the hundred or so yatais at sundown for a sampling of famed local street food. The cramped mobile kiosks — accommodating a maximum of 10 people at best — have customers ...
Kawagoe is a Japanese city northwest of Tokyo famous for its old clay warehouses from the Edo period and its unique street ...
How to do it Inside Japan offers the seven-night Kanazawa Culture adventure, with three nights in Kanazawa, a night in nearby Kaga Onsen and three nights in Tokyo from £1,330 per person.
YAMAGATA -- A local history museum with a unique tetradecagon cloister design in this northern Japan city has been fascinating visitors, recording a r ...
In the Meiji Era, the mid-1800s to early 1900s, “after Japan opened up to Western civilization, craftsmen borrowed techniques and machines from the West,” Mr. Hayashi said. So while the basic ...
The Toei Oedo Line is both the second-longest train tunnel in Japan and the only fully underground subway line in the city.
SODEGAURA, Chiba -- Records of crop thefts and crimes blamed on alcohol are among Edo-period (1603-1867) documents on display at a museum in this eastern Japan city, hinting that society is not ...
Ed Jacob posted an English translation of an article “about how there was pretty much no garbage in Japan’s Edo Period because almost everything got recycled“. Global Voices stands out as one of the ...
The popular Canadian QSR, Edo Japan, is adding to its 136-plus store system with the brand's first restaurant in Ottawa, scheduled to open June 24, a news release said. The QSR is expanding in the ...