Issue 33

If you are a stranger in this strange land, the Naked Stranger is just like you. He is not from around here. He comes from a ...

Hakone is a popular destination for tourists who come for the many hot springs, fancy restaurants and historic ryokan (inns)....

My buddy Gary calls me late at night saying there is some action I should take at first light. I tell him I’ll come around be...

It is night by the time you arrive. You can barely make out the trampled barbed wire fence as you ease under it. Your backpack ca...

The first time I walked on a pair of bamboo stilts with a 20-kg. pack on my back was the day I stood on Japan’s most northerly pr...

After spending four years riding more mountains in North America than most skiers get in a lifetime, I was ready for a new advent...

Alex Springenschmidt first came to Bali in 1998 and, like many before him, he fell in love with the waves, smiling faces and the ...

Ingredients Tomato EggChicken stock (granulated) or consomméSaltPepper Staying with the same theme as last issue, we’re...

This article was originally published in Spring 2010. Outdoor Japan contributor Neil Hartmann sits down with Jake Burton in Ni...

Yoho Brewing is one of the few Japanese craft breweries without a brewpub or restaurant. Yet the well-known Yona Yona Ale the...

The day I decided to go, I exited the station and walked down the road alongside the tracks. Just past a yakitori-ya was a tonkat...

Our picks for our favorite eco-friendly activities and attractions. ECO JET SKISEco Watercraft The noise and polluting...