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Celebrating O-bon in style

By Unique Japan Tours on 08/08/2012 in Japan, Knowledge, Travel, Tours, Culture, Awa Odori, Tokushima, Bon Odori, Obon

Traditionally, Japanese people like to take their holidays on mass. One of the biggest holidays of the year is O-bon or the Festival of Bon, which normally falls around mid-August of each year.

A Japanese Buddhist custom held in honour

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A theatrical workout for the senses

By Unique Japan Tours on 03/08/2012 in Art, Japan, History, Travel, Tours, Culture, Kyoto, Edo, Kabuki

Take kabuki and remove from it the gorgeously colourful costumes, entrancing music and fantastical stories and what you are left with, in its bare essence, is a living, breathing traditional art form.

Any visitor to Japan that goes to watch

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A dazzling display to excite the senses

By Unique Japan Tours on 19/07/2012 in Japan, Tokyo, Travel, Tours, Matsuri, Fireworks, Hanabi, Yukata

They say that “a picture is worth a thousand words.” Well, then, how many words do you think the photo here is worth? Too many to count, I reckon.

It would be futile to try to describe a fireworks display

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Rocking it Fuji style

By Unique Japan Tours on 11/07/2012 in Summer, Fuji Rock, Festivals, Japan, Radiohead, Travel, Tours, Oasis

Summer is in full swing in Japan and that means one thing for music fans: Fuji Rock Festival. This year the festival will take place between July 27 and 29.

Although other popular music festivals do exist in Japan, nothing

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Japan’s festival season is off to a sizzling hot start

By Unique Japan Tours on 02/07/2012 in Festivals, Osaka, Japan, Knowledge, Travel, Tours, Awa Odori, Matsuri, Kyoto, Gion Matsuri

This is the time of the year where Japan braces itself for the upcoming summer temperatures and for another reason too – matsuri (festivals)!! Japan is the home to a whole smorgasbord of festivals that take place throughout the Japanese

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Tokyo Sky Tree

By Unique Japan Tours on 25/06/2012 in Japan, Tokyo, Travel, Tours, Sky Tree, Tokyo Tower

Move over Tokyo Tower, there’s a new, bigger brother dominating the capital’s skyline now. Welcome to the Tokyo Skytree. When it was officially opened to the public on May 22, the Tokyo Skytree became the world’s tallest broadcast tower. Its

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Sumo in Japan

By Unique Japan Tours on 13/06/2012 in Japan, Tokyo, Travel, Tours, Culture, Ritual, Ryogoku, Sport, Sumo

Watching a sumo tournament in Japan is like taking a trip back to medieval Japan. Any visit to Tokyo would not be complete without seeing this living, breathing art form.

Here are some handy titbits of information that will help

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By Unique Japan Tours on 02/05/2012 in Japan, Travel, Tours, Culture, Testimonial, Cherry blossom, Takayama, Nara, Kyoto

Japan Discovered Cherry Blossom

Tour Feedback from Tour Leader

Yuki Ito

“We finished the April Japan Discovered tour a few weeks ago. Each participant had his/her own highlights of the tour, but the group was able to particularly enjoy …

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