A calendar of traditional Japanese festivals with detailed explanations on events and locations.

The Takenaka Carpentry Tools Museum is a museum of carpentry tools in Kobe, Japan. The museum was opened in 1984 with the objective of collecting and conserving ancient tools as an example of Japanese cultural heritage, in order to pass them on to the next generation through research and exhibitions.

A travel guide for Yamagata Prefecture, a pristine region almost untouched by tourism.

Finding tattoo-friendly places in Japan: hotels and ryokan, in-door and open-air baths, onsen, sento, and private baths. In recent years, the number of tourists has been increasing while at the same time, the more and more popular question “Do you know of any onsen that will allow tattooed guests to enter?” is being asked. For this purpose, this site has been created to answer those questions. Many travellers become uneasy when they don’t know whether it is possible to enter a certain onsen.

Tim Romero is a Tokyo-based innovator, author, and entrepreneur. Podcast on Japanese startups and Japan market entry.

Business In Japan grew from and supports a LinkedIn group of the same name that was founded in February 2008. Currently there are well over 50,000 BIJ members, 35% of them Japan based. If you have an interest in Japan and business you’re in the right place. This web portal aims to provide increasing value to people like yourself and we welcome your ideas as well as your involvement.

Heather Porter is a tea enthusiast and Certified Tea Specialist (STI). Her blog aims at raising awareness of tea, tea events, and tea businesses.

Study situational conversations, with simple grammatical explanations and practice speaking and listening to Japanese. Travel Japanese App and Short Japanese Lessons are made by an independent husband and wife team with extensive experience as well as post-graduate qualifications in instructional multimedia and teaching Japanese at University level.

Meanwhile in Japan was created to bring you the most fascinating, surprising and sometimes quirky places, people and things of Japan. The website is the successor of both the Quirky Japan Homepage and the Quirky Japan Photo Blog.

BL Manga related site.

The Snoopy Museum is a place to discover and learn about Charles M. Schulz, and to enjoy the heart-warming world of Peanuts. Visitors have the opportunity to view unique original cartoons from the collection of the Charles M. Schulz Museum. Every six months, the Snoopy Museum will introduce new exhibitions curated by the Charles M. Schulz Museum.

Experiencing all Japan has to offer and sharing the knowledge with you.

Here to show you what shops, cafes, bars and overall places you need to visit here in Japan.

Insightful stories about Japanese culture and useful information for travelling in Japan.

The Church of the Light is the main chapel of the Ibaraki Kasugaoka Church, a member church of the United Church of Christ in Japan, and built in 1989, in the city of Ibaraki, Osaka Prefecture. This building is one of the most famous designs of Japanese architect Tadao Ando.

Fly Fishing in Japan: regulations, streams, tackle, and flies.

Pacific Boeki is a used Japanese car dealers that deals in second hand Japanese cars.

The Tokyo Station Hotel is located in the central of Marunouchi Tokyo, directly connected to JR Tokyo Station. This iconic luxury hotel near Tokyo Station has over 100 years of history, offering hotel rooms, suites and meeting rooms for business and leisure traveler.

Shinto related photographs, maintained by the Shinto Online Network Association.

Green Shinto is a blog by John Dougill operating out of Kyoto, Japan, which is dedicated to the promotion of an open, international and environmental Shinto. It seeks to celebrate the rich heritage of the tradition, from sacred rocks and shamanistic roots to bawdy myths and fertility festivals. It believes Shinto to be essentially diverse, localised and community oriented. It looks to a Shinto free of borders, liberated from its past to meet the demands of a new age. It looks in short to a Shinto that is green in deed as well as in word.

The international comedy podcast: with a mix of news, interviews, chat, songs, and live stand up comedy, this is the podcast that you've been waiting for. Kind of. Even if you didn't know you were waiting for it. John, Yorkshire, and Sam, Surrey, are both from England, but have lived in Japan for, well, for a long time.The show is broadcast from Japan, but focuses on goings on from around the world. With their experience gained from performing on the Tokyo comedy circuit John and Sam will educate, enlighten, and probably be a little bit silly.

Collecting measurements from over 20 official sources, the Institute for Information Design compiles an hourly updated consistent Japan Radiation Map - featuring more than 4,500 locations, to provide a visual comprehensive overview as well as detailed meshes on close-up, both in Japanese and English. A 3D visualization on GoogleEarth creates a compelling immersive view on the scale of differences of radiation levels which could not be conveyed by flat map representations alone.

The Institute for Information Design Japan has been following the developments after the destruction at the Fukushima-Dai-Ichi power plant from the very beginning.

Introducing restaurants in Tokyo with multilingual menus available; maintained by the Tokyo Convention & Visitors Bureau.

Nihonto Yoroi Zasshi, an online samurai magazine on history, martial arts, arms and armour, artisans, museums, antique dealers and societies.