Yes to Yamaguchi

ex-section2 Jan 15, 2025

Yes to Yamaguchi

From a snake-like torii gate tunnel slinking toward the ocean to East Asia’s largest limestone cavern, Mandy Bartok found all this and more when journeying around the Nagato region in Yamaguchi Prefecture.

Hot water, high energy

ex-section2 Dec 26, 2024

Hot water, high energy

Hot springs bathing may be quintessentially Japanese, wrote Mara Budgen, but is the modern-day proliferation of onsen, not to mention related accommodations, compatible with the nation’s limited environmental resources?