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Suica: one card, ten cities, and the places it stops

By Porter Lang If you pack one thing for moving around Japanese cities, make it a card that fits in […]

By Rafe Calder The name is not a technique. It is an address. The plain definition Wikipedia says Nishijin-ori is

By Ines Keane A kyusu looks odd to anyone raised on a round pot with a loop handle. The handle

By Isla Quinn Sea first. Then a ferry. Then rooms built to be looked at slowly. Where it is Wikipedia

By Rafe Calder The brush trade in Kumano began as a way to fill the winter. It outgrew that. The

By Isla Quinn Drop a square of towel fabric on water. Count. If it sinks within five seconds, it passes.

By Porter Lang Start with the walls. A donabe is thick on purpose, and nearly everything else about it follows

By Ines Keane Most hot-spring towns give you one big bath and a lobby. Kinosaki gives you the street. Where

By Isla Quinn Hot water. Yellow fruit bobbing on the surface. The smell comes first, sharp and green-bright, somewhere between

By Rafe Calder Nobody knows exactly who sold the first station lunch in Japan. That much is plain from the