Tag: onsen

I took a couple of days off this week to travel with an Italian friend of mine to Hakone, a ...

Like many people in Japan, I am a 風呂人 furo-bito, or a person who likes taking baths in natural hot ...

One theme I write a lot about is how the Japanese are interested in the outside world, and especially in ...

Last weekend I was casting around for something to do, so I decided to hit an onsen (pronounced "own-sen"), the ...

A few weeks ago I went with my son to an onsen hot spring, which is a rarity these days ...

One interesting social concept you see at work a lot in Japan is the concept of 我慢 gaman, which means ...

Are French people Buddhists? Are the Germans lonely? Are the British particularly heroic, and do Americans eat lots of rice? ...

Last time I talked about the way a country like Japan can appear quite different to "outsiders" who come here ...

As an American living in Japan, I go about my day in a normal way, hitting the gym, filling my ...

Over the weekend I had some free time, so I decided to get in the car and head off in ...

J-List is located in Gunma Prefecture in the exact center of Japan, about 100 km northwest of Tokyo. While there's ...

Over the weekend Mrs. J-List and I took a drive up to Nikko for a relaxing dip in an onsen. ...

I saw that the U.S. had taken action to freeze the assets of a major yakuza group in the U.S., ...

J-List is based in Gunma, a landlocked prefecture in the exact center of Japan that's said to be shaped like ...

It's always interesting to explore the "when worlds collide" moments between Japan and the U.S. Tomo, the J-List employee who ...

It's fun to study the history of the memes that pop up in anime. Every time you watch an onsen ...

One thing I like about Japan is the importance placed on truth in advertising. In TV commercials for products like ...

There are many differences between Japan and the U.S. For example, America has way more lawyers -- 1 for every ...

My son and I had a blast up in northern Japan. Our first stop was the city of Sapporo, the ...

For the past few months I've been seeing those awesomely-designed advertisements promoting tourism in Japan's northern Tohoku region, damaged so ...

When you go to an onsen (OWN-sen), a hot springs bath, it's important to have all the essentials with you, ...

A few weeks ago I took some time off to go up to an onsen resort in the mountains with ...

The other day I decided my hair had grown long enough, and that it was time to go get it ...

Over the weekend I took off work early and headed up to the mountains around Gunma to a pleasant onsen ...