Stick-your-face-here boards to create memorable travel photos are now a long-standing norm at most tourist attractions, and Japan has no shortage of them with loads…

“Haikyo” is the Japanese word for “ruins”, but is often used in reference to the hobby of seeking out and exploring abandoned and sometimes even…

Japan’s food culture is known for regional specialties, which sometimes can only be bought by tourists when they actually visit that specific area of the…

Some optical illusions are intentional like trompe l’oeil paintings in amusement parks or murals, or on a smaller scale like this young Japanese artist who…

Niigata prefecture’s Wara Art Festival has a very creative and imposing way of making use of the leftover rice straw (wara) from the harvests that…

One of the most beautiful and otherworldly landscapes on our planet, the Salar de Uyuni in the Bolivian Altiplano is on the list of places…

Japan is famous for its astounding variety of vending machines selling almost everything under the sun, including dashi cooking stock, specialty goods from rural areas…

With the yearly increase of foreign tourists visiting Japan, cities big and small have been turning up their creativity to figure out ways to promote…