Chugoku

The Oki Islands consist of four large inhabited islands and about 180 smaller uninhabited ones. Dogo Island (or Okinoshima) is th...

“We are almost there,” Yuji turns to me and says as we wind up a mountain road. I open my tired eyes and then everything goes bla...

Daisen G-Beer may be one of the most remote breweries in Japan, but there is nothing remote about the familiar flavors of the...

Head to the furthest reaches of Japan’s least populated prefecture, Tottori, and prepare to be dazzled. In a country where...

On a mission to complete a full day of riding, our plan was surf and then snow, so we headed to The North Shore and Big Mountain....

“Beer tastes better in Bizen! ” he said. “From Bizen cups anyway.” He had been sitting in the corner all night and, as the discus...

Why do we travel? A restaurant on Osakishimo-jima helped to answer that question. To begin, this column is not designed to hig...