Author: Max Claeys

Shikoku Chicken Dishes With sea on all sides, Shikoku is naturally a good place to eat fish, and…

Shikoku Crafts Shikoku is home to a wide variety of attractive traditional crafts. You may encounter some of…

Shikoku Kominka Shikoku offers some unique accommodation choices, and among these, the _kominka_ ranks highly as the sort…

Accommodation in Japan Here we’ll look at everything from guesthouses and pilgrim’s lodgings to high-end ryokan and even…

Kuma Highland Kuma Kogen Highland is an expansive inhabited area at a high elevation in central Ehime bordering…

The Doburoku Guesthouse Kurousagi While the ranks of sake-lovers around the world are growing, few people yet know…

The covered bridges of Uchiko have an ineffable rustic charm.

Shikoku is a very irregularly shaped island, with lovely capes in all its corners.

Temari Temari were once a commonplace of refined Japanese life, and these richly embroidered balls can still be…

Takamatsu Top Ten In this series of articles, we look at the top ten places in the four…