Mika Senda

Enjoy a gourmet meal on a vintage train ride between Kitakinki’s top two sites of Kinosaki Onsen and Amanohashidate pine-covered sandbar.

The Kitakinki region offers a wide variety of things to see and do outside its famed Kinosaki Onsen & Amanohashidate.

Try vegan and gluten-free meals at Kinosaki Onsen, go yurt glamping, and other top highlights of North Kyoto & Hyogo.

From Fukui's historic mackerel highway to Amanohashidate in Kyoto, winter in Japan will reveal history beyond the region's seafood.

Kuju Flower Park is one of Kyushu's top flower parks, with over 500 flower varieties blooming from April to October. Here's the best time to visit and what kind of flowers to see during your visit.

From sunflower fields, all-immersive light & sound museum experience, to private cabins, Nagasakibana may be one of Oita's best-kept secrets.

Try making umeshu wine and go plum blossom viewing this spring in Hita city, Oita.

Part two of my travels across the Shimanami Kaido Expressway, a popular cycling route connecting Japan's main islands of Honshu and Shikoku. I ended my travels on the small islands of Ehime prefecture, where I’d visit modern art museums, samurai shrines and take in breathtaking island and ocean views from an observatory.

Part One of my travels across the Shimanami Kaido Expressway, a popular cycling route connecting Japan's main islands of Honshu and Shikoku. I started my travels in Hiroshima, where I stopped at Kosanji Temple and Hirayama Museum.

An overnight stay in Shikoku's Ozu Castle Town, home to Japan's first-ever overnight castle accommodations, Nipponia Hotel, and the charming thatched-house villa of Garyu Sanso.

A day on a secluded island getaway and modern art destination of Hiroshima's Momoshima Island.

Pufferfish, one of Japan’s most celebrated delicacies, and where to eat it in Shimonoseki, Japan.

A light hiking expedition with stunning island and ocean views, and including prestigious Buddhist structures of deep religious and historical significance. In that case, Mount Misen (弥山) of Hiroshima prefecture checks all the boxes. Here's a guide to Mt. Misen Trekking and Miyajima, the best two-hour hiking trail to take in Japan.

A visit to Motonosumi Shrine, crowned as one of “31 Most Beautiful Places in Japan,” and Yamaguchi's oldest onsen hotsprings.

A day hiking and cave exploration through Japan's largest concentrations of karst formations at Akiyoshidai Quasi-National Park in Yamaguchi prefecture.