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Women Crossing Bridge

The Road to Paradise on Mount Tateyama

In the town of Tateyama, around 400km North West of Tokyo, blindfolded women walk to paradise during the sacred ritual of Nunobashi Kanjoe.

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HOSHINOYA Fuji

HOSHINOYA Fuji Hotel Glamping Resort

The HOSHINOYA Fuji Hotel is not so much a glamping experience as we know it in the west, more of a luxury rustic retreat in a delicious red pine forest.

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Exploring Honshu beyond Tokyo

Exploring Honshu beyond Tokyo. Immerse into Japan’s serene countryside.

The colourful chaos that is Tokyo with its high rises, nightlife and neon is stuff of legend, but no more than an hour outside of the city, Japan’s countryside is another world entirely. Andy Mossack goes exploring Honshu beyond Tokyo.

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Japan for first time visitors

The white gloves of the train guards, the language of bowing, the tea ceremonies and the vanishing world of the Geisha. This is Japan for first time visitors

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