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Best Hotels in Nikko Japan
September 4, 2023  By janelawsonfood 

The best places to stay in Nikko Japan!

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KANAGAWA Region – Hakone, Odawara, Yokohama & Kamakura, Japan
March 22, 2020  By janelawsonfood 

When the world gets back on its feet…. I’m fairly certain all of us who suffer from travel-lust (not just travel writers and tour operators) will be desperate to bust out of isolation and travel our buns off . So in an effort to maintain positivity […]

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Confessions of a Travel Writer
September 15, 2019  By janelawsonfood 

Dear All, I have something to confess. It’s been almost 12 months since my last blogpost. I’m ashamed. And ever so sorry. It’s just that… well, no excuses really – except that I’ve been super busy travelling for work (and writing elsewhere eg Escape, Delicious, Real […]

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Tofuku-ji
August 18, 2017  By janelawsonfood 

Get off Kyoto’s well-worn tourist track and visit Tofukuji Temple renowned for its Zen moss and rock gardens designed by a famous Japanese garden architect.

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OHARA and Sanzen-in
August 10, 2017  By janelawsonfood 

I like to visit Ohara as regularly as I can. It’s just north of Kyoto city – about an hour in the bus from Kyoto station but feels so much further away. I love the local farming atmosphere and the greenery but the main reason I […]

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Bizen Pottery
August 10, 2017  By janelawsonfood 

Disclaimer – this post was stolen from our other blog (eatspeakjl.blogspot.com) and was written in 2015 –  but we just stumbled across it and thought we’d share! Recently (please see above!) we took a short visit to Kurashiki and Okayama city from Kyoto. From Okayama city we rode […]

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Korakuen Garden Okayama
August 1, 2017  By janelawsonfood 

Okayama is famous for its castle (peeking over the shoulder of the tree on the right in the image below), sweet, sweet summer peaches, the story of Momotaro – the Peach Boy), Bizen ceramic ware, various citrus fruit and this spectacular garden –Korakuen –  ranked as one of […]

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Japan Blue
July 31, 2017  By janelawsonfood 

Every so often we get swept away with the colour in Japan. We cannot tell a lie. In fact it’s an every day occurrence whether we are in situ or looking at 30 something years worth of Japan travel photos.  Or merely dreaming. Last week it […]

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Sandor Does Kyoto
July 22, 2017  By janelawsonfood 

Earlier this year I had the great pleasure of introducing Fermentation Guru Sandor Katz to just a small snippet of some of Kyoto’s wonders.  He was on a mission to try some Funazushi (fermented sushi) so we tracked some down at a shop specialising in foods […]

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Nijo Castle in Winter
July 2, 2017  By janelawsonfood 

Naturally I’m rather fond of Japanese architecture but for some reason traditional buildings of the castle variety have never really grabbed me…  Nijo Castle is different. For one… it’s not your A-typical castle.  It isn’t a wedding cake perched high on a hill overlooking the town, […]

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