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Northern festival madness
Japan is not known for doing things by halves. Having developed one of the world’s most technically advanced and super efficient high speed rail networks and taken the experience of going to the toilet...
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Five reasons to visit the north of Japan
The beauty of Tohoku Just fifteen minutes ago, before sitting down to write this, I was plunging into an outdoor hot-spring on the roof of my ryokan (Japanese Inn) watching the sun set over Sado...
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Volunteering with It’s Not Just Mud
Konbanwa! I’m currently in Ishinomaki, a fishing port on the coast of Miyagi Prefecture that suffered the full force of the Tohoku Tsunami 20 months ago. I’m spending four days volunteering with the...
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Life in the It’s Not Just Mud community
Hello again from Ishinomaki. Today I thought I’d share photos of life in the It’s Not Just Mud volunteer house. It’s very much communal living here, with around 20 volunteers staying in two...
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The Tsunami Coast
Although my time volunteering with It’s Not Just Mud is drawing to a close, we managed to find time between shifts to venture down to Onagawa Port where the tsunami devastation is most evident. This...
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Photos from It’s Not Just Mud
If you want to donate to ItsNotJustMud and help with the incredible work they are doing in Tohoku, please follow this link http://www.justgiving.com/insidejapantours-ishinomaki This is my final blog...
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My favourite place in Japan – Jen Snow
We have some pretty good talent on the ground in Japan in our Nagoya office and leading tours around the country.One of our new tour leaders is Bostonian, Jen Snow. I would give you a little of Jen’s...
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Learning to Love the Ocean
Two years on from the great Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, tourism to Japan is back to pre-tsunami levels and InsideJapan Tours are assisting more people than ever in discovering the beautiful culture,...
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Tohoku: Then & Now – Ester De Roij
Two years on from the great Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, tourism to Japan is back to pre-tsunami levels and InsideJapan Tours are assisting more people than ever in discovering the beautiful culture,...
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Journey back to Tohoku – Amy Tadehara
Amy is from our US office. Amy also lived in Sendai for several years and has a special love for Tohoku. Exactly two years on from the tsunami, Amy returned to the region to see how her Tohoku was...
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Four years on from the Tsunami
With the fourth anniversary of the great tsunami here and the disaster hit areas recently highlighted by Prince Williams royal visit, we thought you might want to read our Steve’s account of his...
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10 reasons to visit Tohoku
Tohoku, the northernmost region of Japan’s main island, encompasses six prefectures and countless fascinating destinations. It is a region of wild countryside, rustic hot spring towns and deep winters...
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A fleeting visit to the North
Following on from our ’10 Reasons to visit Tohoku’, tour leader Steve headed up to the region – the first time in a while – to scout areas for the new ‘A Northern Soul’ tour. Here’s what he had to say…...
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The triple disaster: Looking back on the Tohoku Earthquake
On the 11th of March 2016, Japan will be marking five years since its ‘triple disaster’: the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear meltdown that collectively claimed over 18,000 lives in 2011. To mark the...
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Ganbaro Tohoku: Recovering from the earthquake
This month at Inside Japan Tours it’s all about Tohoku, the northern region devastated by the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear meltdown of 2011. Last week we took a look back at the chilling events of...
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5 years on: My experience of the Tohoku Earthquake
Inside Japan travel consultant Emma Price lived in Japan from 2010 until 2015, where she worked as an English teacher in a junior high school in Sendai. Located on the east coast of Tohoku, Sendai was...
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Beautiful Tohoku: 5 years on
This month we’ve looked back at every aspect of the Japan’s great 2011 disaster – the earthquake, tsunami, the nuclear meltdown, and the subsequent recovery efforts. It’s been an emotional journey,...
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10 reasons to visit Tohoku
Tohoku, the northernmost region of Japan’s main island, encompasses six prefectures and countless fascinating destinations. It is a region of wild countryside, rustic hot spring towns and deep winters...
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A fleeting visit to the North
Following on from our 10 Reasons to visit Tohoku, tour leader Steve headed up to the region – the first time in a while – to scout areas for the new A Northern Soul tour. Here’s what he had to say… A...
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The triple disaster: Looking back on the Tohoku Earthquake
On the 11th of March 2016, Japan will be marking five years since its ‘triple disaster’: the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear meltdown that collectively claimed over 18,000 lives in 2011. To mark the...
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