A look at the traditional farmhouses now commonly called kominka—“old folk dwellings”—a name that underscores their age. They ...

A journey that links the bustling heart of Tokyo with a small community on the city’s mountainous western fringe reveals the ...

As I walked toward the center of the cascading waterfalls, severe coldness gripped my feet, and the rhythmic chants of a Shinto priest disappeared under the sounds of torrents pounding the rocky ...

For residents and visitors to Tokyo, the closest isle worthy of the Cat Island designation lies in Kanagawa Prefecture, the capital’s neighbor to the south. Enoshima, which can be accessed from a ...

Tales of the samurai are synonymous with swordsmen around the world, but in fact some of Japan’s most celebrated warriors were women. Technically, women couldn’t become samurai. But samurai was a ...

无论是来过日本、还是看过日剧的小伙伴，都可能会发现，日本生活中常出现一种很神奇的机器。 向机器中投入几枚日元硬币，转动机器旁的旋钮，伴随着两声“咔嚓”、“咔嚓”，就会有一颗 ...

Our story begins with Prince Shotoku in what is now Osaka. At the time, there were no Buddhist temples in Japan, and no carpenters to build them, either. Prince Shotoku invited three carpenters from ...

https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%BA%90%E6%B0%8F Japanese commoners had no official surnames all the way until the Meiji Restoration (1868), meaning the acquisition ...

雖然台灣也有所謂的路隊，讓小學生自己上下學，但通常多集中在家裡離學校真的很近的學生，或是中高年級生，低年級生一般還是多由家長接送。這一點在日本則不太一樣，日本的家長從小孩 ...

相传荞麦原产于现今中东，中国四川、云南一带，尔后又传往欧洲及亚洲其他各地。 在日本的纪载中，据高知县所遗留的生活纪录，从绳文时代开始，便有荞麦的“踪迹”，但主要的食用方法不 ...

日本尾濑国立公园横跨了日本群马、福岛、新泻、枥木四县，是日本最大的高原湿地公园。因为其特别的地质和气候，在那里你可以看到各式各样的花草鸟兽，日本有些学校每年都会组织学生去 ...

前往絲島的方式並不困難，從「福岡機場」搭乘福岡市營地下鐵至「姪浜」，再轉乘JR筑肥線到「筑前前原」，全程大概需要45分鐘。但抵達絲島後的移動方式首推自駕，若是和小編一樣不會開車 ...