Ayabe, Kyoto Pref. – “Wear casual clothes… and don’t come in shoes you’d mind getting a bit dirty.” The dress code at Inaka no Taiho is more than just informal — it’s down-home, backcountry, ...
Nice area but you have to have a fetish for shovelling snow for 3 months every year. It hardly snows in most of Nagano. It rarely snows in Matsumoto or Nagano City, and only 10-15cm when it does. Even ...
When I became an ALT (Assistant Language Teacher), I was assigned to work in Shimane—the second least-populated prefecture in Japan. Moving here taught me that life in Japan’s inaka (countryside) is ...