TRAVEL NEWS FROM THE JAPAN TIMES
To Relais & Chateaux, not all ‘ryokan’ inns are created equal
When Japan travels, it doesn’t mind going it alone
Election day is coming. Are you comfortable talking about politics in Japanese?
On Okinawa’s Tokashiki Island, life’s a beach — one of the best in the world
To Miho Fujita, ‘rules are meant to be broken in the sake world’
A playfully subversive knife from a rising Scottish design star
Kazunari Otowa: Tochigi’s patriarch of French fine dining
Action drives VR, but Japan prizes anonymity and plot
Attempting the classics: Decoding Osamu Dazai’s sinister diction
‘A good knife is not only about the steel’
Cobble together this Father’s Day raspberry dessert
Dads like sweets, but some like sweet words even more
Retro barbers, executive facials: Pamper dad with a Tokyo spa day
Virtu brings hospitality award home to the country of ‘omotenashi’
Japan’s theme parks are ramping up their offerings ahead of summer