Country Info
- Tokyo
- Capital
- Yen (JPY)
- Currency
- 126,771,662
- Population
- JP
- Country Code
Japan Slideshow
Top Hotels in Japan
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Best Western Hotel Kansai Airport Izumisano
75 reviews -
Courtyard by Marriott Tokyo Ginza Chuo
197 reviews -
ANA Hotel Kushiro
47 reviews
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International Hotel Nagoya
37 reviews
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Hotel Gracery Ginza Chuo
137 reviews
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Princess Garden Shinagawa
27 reviews
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Nagoya Marriott Associa
394 reviews -
Hotel Monterey Akasaka Minato
188 reviews
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Novotel Koshien Osaka West Nishinomiya
38 reviews
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Chisun Hotel Sendai
62 reviews -
JR Tower Hotel Nikko Sapporo
419 reviews
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Cypress Garden Hotel Nagoya
16 reviews
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Buena Vista Hotel Matsumoto
47 reviews
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Chisun Inn Asakusa Taito
177 reviews
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Shangri-La Hotel, Tokyo Chiyoda
168 reviews
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Okinawa NaHaNa Hotel & Spa
91 reviews
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Hotel Villa Fontaine Roppongi Annex Minato
63 reviews
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Yokohama Bay Sheraton Hotel and Towers
240 reviews
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ANA Intercontinental Ishigaki Resort
161 reviews
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ANA Hotel Clement Takamatsu
105 reviews
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Hearton Hotel Minamisenba Osaka
98 reviews
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Loisir Hotel Hakodate
110 reviews
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Hotel Nikko Nara
230 reviews
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Royal Park Inn Nagoya
47 reviews
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Castle Inn Kanazawa
40 reviews
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Hotel New Otani Hakata Fukuoka
57 reviews
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Sheraton Grande Ocean Resort Miyazaki
199 reviews
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Hotel Monterey Osaka
199 reviews
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Hotel Jal City Sendai
192 reviews
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Mercure Tokyo Ginza Chuo
362 reviews
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Hotel Monterey Edelhof Sapporo
180 reviews
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Takanawa Tobu Hotel Minato
33 reviews
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Omori Tokyu Inn Ota
28 reviews
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Sapporo Grand Hotel
301 reviews
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Kichijoji Tokyu Inn Musashino
37 reviews
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Mitsui Garden Hotel Ginza Premier Chuo
219 reviews
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Hotel Nikko Kanazawa
260 reviews
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Pan Pacific Yokohama Bay Hotel Tokyu
419 reviews
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New Otani Kobe Harborland
44 reviews
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APA Villa Hotel Yodoyabashi Osaka
96 reviews
Japan
Travel Blogs from Japan
Pufferfish fit for a king
This is a top pick! ... how many are licensed, says Kiichi Kitahama, a well-known chef and owner of a fugu museum in Osaka. In addition, only 19 of Japan's 47 prefectures require chefs to pass an exam to obtain a fugu license, and those tests vary in their demands. In Tokyo, ...
Takayama
This is a top pick! ... ) and ran one red light. Not bad huh? Kyle did an amazing job driving while I slept in the back seat. Highways in Japan have a lot of interesting features. Such as a helpful highway owl that appears at some intersections. Its eyes light up alternately. We ...
Funky Monkeys
This is a top pick! The weather appeared a bit better today so I left my bags at reception after checking out and set off for Miyajima island out in the inland sea just south of Hiroshima. On arriving at the ferry terminal for the island I was offered some squid snacks to ...
Bad Facial Hair
This is a top pick! ... spend a whole week in Okinawa, the country's southernmost prefecture, and perhaps the one most challenging to stereotypes of Japan. No giant skyscrapers, neon lights and crowded trains here. Just endless expanses of deserted golden sand, turquoise waters ...
Geishas in Great Kyoto - Japan We Love You!!!
This is a top pick! ... temples and shrines in Kyoto was just half of the attraction. As we mentioned in the previous blog about Tokyo, Japan is a beautiful country filled with warm smiley people, beautiful scenery, quirky neighbourhoods , 5-storey shops dedicated to Manga and ...
Harry Gateaux Japan
This is a top pick! We zoomed to Tokyo on our last Shinkansen of Japan, and headed straight to Akihabara - Electric City, famed for the huge number of electrical goods shops. It also has 'Cosplay' which is where Japanese girls (and the odd boy) dress up in a load of costumes ...
Summer Vacation and Stuff
This is a top pick! ... before we snuck in to shower/bath. 3. Visiting Matsumoto Castle. This is one of only a few authentic castles in Japan. Most castles required reconstruction following the wars. This one is beautiful - complete with moat, various defensive appendages, ...
Just?@Checking In
This is a top pick! ... so I took the name tags back. I`m surprised with this behaviour given the hightened awareness of the SEXY HARRASU issue they have in Japan these days (that`s how the Japanese refer to sexual harassement). Oh well. When I tried to hand them out again later ...
Tales of Takayama
This is a top pick! ... thought to be in existence: a rude Japanese person! We also discuss something that has been worrying us since our arrival in Japan: the toilets. You can find western loos pretty much everywhere but sometimes they come with a side panel that looks like you ...
So long Sasakis
This is a top pick! Our Hiroshima video can be found on the Contents page (entry #1). Click on 'more thumbnails' towards the top of the entry for all the videos. Because the guest room at Keigo's is not heated, it gets freezing it at night. To ...
The never-ending flight
This is a top pick! This won't be an involved entry, but I wanted to have a map pin for Tokyo and I don't think I can just put a pin in without an entry. Well, I got to O'Hare around 9 a.m. for my 11 a.m. flight as was recommended, and I then had to wait about an hour and a ...
Minoh Quasi-National Park
This is a top pick! Just a couple of hours from Osaka is lovely Minoh Park, which has lovely Minoh falls.. and lots of easy walking tracks. Its quite pretty and required visits from everyone so i managed to get there in Snow, Summer, Cherry Blossom Time and Leaf changing ...
Cultural Participation
This is a top pick! ... I am still clueless about. To the surprise of no one but myself, it was a perfect irasshaimase (ie welcome) to Japan. A more tranquil practice involves going to izakaya in the evenings. These are sort of traditional Japanese hostelries where you take ...
Tour de Tokyo
This is a top pick! ... machine right outside. In fact, Coke is only one of about a thousand things you can buy from a vending machine in Japan. Everything is available, from beer to liquor to cigarettes (no trouble with age limits here) to cans of coffee. Did ...
Last day in Tokyo
This is a top pick! ... to cook. It turns out to be marvellously tasty, a common description for every single thing we have eaten so far in Japan. It would be fair to say that, following our two forgettable overnight bus rides in Australia, we are not particularly ...
Enter the Dragon
This is a top pick! Luckily today the Kinryu-no-mai or Golden Dragon Dance festival was happening at the Sensoji Temple, not that I had planned my timing or anything, come on I ain't that organized. I'd already seen the temple but didn't mind another visit in order to see ...
Culture rich Kyoto
This is a top pick! ... small rivers that converge close to the city centre and many of the streets are lined with what you would imagine typical Japan to look like - perfectly manicured gardens and small neat homes with white screen doors and wooden panels. For this reason we ...
Kobe and Osaka
This is a top pick! Today I was woken ridiculously early (6.30am) by a really loud announcement over the tannoy in japanese. I found out later she was saying "Get up, it's bath and breakfast time." She then proceeded to give an indepth weather report. So much for a long ...
Some more climbing
This is a top pick! Today I took the train from Hiroshima to Miyajimaguchi and from there I took the boat across to Miyajima Island. There was a large shrine, the Itsukushima Shrine, which was in the water. When the tide is in it looks like the shrine is floating on the ...
Oh deer its Nara!
This is a top pick! ... wooden structure in the world and has been reconstructed at 2/3 of the original size. It also houses the largest Buddha statue in Japan and is truly amazing to actually see and is very beautiful. We spent a bit of time looking inside the temple before ...
The wrong slippers
This is a top pick! ... my second sober trip in 2001 with my wife, her sister and my mother-in-law..ouch. On our first night in Japan we were treated to a luxurious Japanese banquet in a traditional setting. The screened room contained a long low table with cushions and ...
Osaka
This is a top pick! Osaka is pretty much how you picture Japan. Trains going over your head, under your feet, big flashy buildings and side streets with lots of eateries. Went to the Umeda Sky Building when we arrived, to catch the sunset. The building consists of ...
Northern Road Trip 2
This is a top pick! The frontier towns of Northern Province are nothing to write home about, and at Mpulungu I was looking forward to a break from the trend. A town with a "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" name, Mpulungu is on the southern shore of Lake Tanganyka and is ...
Japan's Cradle
This is a top pick! ... home to the most impressive sights of the trip, then Osaka was certainly the culinary high point. Despite the popular image of Japan as a largely homogenous society, the truth is that strong regional identities and cultures persist in the face of ...
Naxi, Nazi and Nashi
This is a top pick! There is a difference: naxi nazi nashi One is an ethnic group in south-west China, one is a pear, and one is associated with Germany and Hitler. I live among Naxi people and eat a fruit that sounds the same - Nashi - but this is a Japanese word ...
Bored in Narita
This is a top pick! ... '), who has been living in Hawaii for 50 years now. I meet my sis at her arrival gate in five hours. We head to Bangkok from here. Times running... I'll check back with you all later. Ciao, JR Riel via Narita International Airport, Tokyo, ...