In fact there are a wide variety of Japanese foods and most of them are unfamiliar to the Western traveller. This is inconvenient to the short term traveller because you can only eat so many meals in a day and few resources tell you what to look for when you really want to search for the truly unusual stuff. So here is a short list of some things you, or your friends, have probably never eaten.

Yamaguchi prefecture may not be famous, but it still has lots of fun and interesting things to see and do.

Dark alleys and winding streets. That’s the first thing one thinks of when visiting Nakadori in Yokohama.