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Food and Drinks
All Aboard Niigata’s Sake Train
Japan is famous for its super fast bullet trains, where cities and the countryside blur into one—the final destination, hundreds ...
Music Festivals
2021 Summer Music Festivals in Japan
Camp and listen to great music in the outdoors at these summer music festivals across Japan.
Cultural Travel
Sado, the Island of Art and Music
An island with a colorful past has long attracted local and international creatives to its rocky shores. The collective soul of S...
People
Sado Island’s Creative Soul: Johnny Wales
Walking through a damp, faint trail along a rice paddy, long curly grey locks peak out around the corner of a room where stacks o...
Sea Kayaking
Freedom in Exile
There is an upside to a recession, I thought to myself. My head down, arms paddling too hard against wind and waves to worry abou...
Cycling Japan
A Coast-to-Coast Ride Across Honshu
Starting from the Tokyo outskirts, this ride takes us across the island of Honshu. Many cyclists try to ride across Japan’s l...
Music Festivals
A Look Back at 20 Years of Kodo
Sleepy Sado Island, just off the coast of Niigata Prefecture, easily slips under most people’s radar. Unless you were banished th...