Walk with Cathy around beautiful Rikugien garden in Tokyo, in the footsteps of the samurai and his concubine who once lived there.

This January, join us for our cosiest JanuaryInJapan Book Club yet! Join us as we gather together online to chat about the heart-warming...

This month let's take a look at the writing of Lafcadio Hearn in his essay collection of 1895, called Kokoro . In his essays, we discover...

I first discovered stories about the thunder god, Susanoo-no-Mikoto, when I visited the Gion Matsuri last summer. Susanoo-no-Mikoto is...

Have you ever wondered about Japanese Shinto shrines? What is the meaning behind those zigzag shapes of paper that hang from a rope, and...

Do not think yourself The vanishing dew. Think instead Of the long-blooming Chrysanthemum flower. The Heian Court calendar was peppered...

Mamefuji © John Paul Foster Meet John Paul Foster: Kyoto Photographer of the Floating World My Japan Journey Interview 6: John Paul...

Chigo, Yasaka Shrine Influences and Beginnings When I was in my early twenties, and without much experience of travel, I arrived with my...

It was almost three years to the day when we returned to Kyoto in November 2022. In the intervening time, when it was not possible to...

Our JanuaryInJapan Bookclub was so good last winter when we came together to talk about the first chapter of The Tale of Genji, that...

The Old Capital by Yasunari Kawabata The novel is set in Kyoto, a city of high art and the cultural soul of Japan since it became the...

It's the 9th of September, and we're thinking of chrysanthemums today, as it's Kiku no Sekku in Japan: the Chrysanthemum Festival! The...