From hidden temples to lively festivals, old tales to everyday scenes - stories, photos, and videos of the Japan that lives between the headlines and the guidebooks.
A pair of bulky, centuries-old statues. Red paper covering. What’s this all about?
Old, retro-looking Showa places are sometimes used as filming locations. Nogata Bunka Market in Tokyo’s Nakano ward is n...
Laundromats don’t have to be boring. One man turned them into a place where you can see famous people. Read the story be...
In the middle of a dense residential neighborhood there is a quiet corner where a well-known writer from Meiji period us...
A large housing complex built almost six decades ago during the postwar housing boom still stands in the middle of a cha...
Foxes and fluttering red banners everywhere you turn! That’s how I would describe my first impression of the Toyokawa In...