In Iinan, Shimane Prefecture, artisans hand-craft the giant sacred rope for Izumo Taisha Shrine’s main hall. It is one of Japan’s largest shimenawa, remade roughly every seven years by a community ...

注连绳是以稻草搓制而成的神圣绳索，常见于日本神社及其他宗教圣地，被视为划分凡俗世界与神明（神道教中的神祇）居所的界线。

For the next thousand years, Japanese paper folding was largely restricted to religious ceremonial use, as paper was expensive. However, paper-making was one of the many industries that flourished ...

For residents and visitors to Tokyo, the closest isle worthy of the Cat Island designation lies in Kanagawa Prefecture, the capital’s neighbor to the south. Enoshima, which can be accessed from a ...

As I walked toward the center of the cascading waterfalls, severe coldness gripped my feet, and the rhythmic chants of a Shinto priest disappeared under the sounds of torrents pounding the rocky ...

Tales of the samurai are synonymous with swordsmen around the world, but in fact some of Japan’s most celebrated warriors were women. Technically, women couldn’t become samurai. But samurai was a ...

Hakata-za is a traditional Japanese theatre which has over 1,000 seats. Various types of Japanese performances and musicals can be appreciated at the Hakata-za. This theatre is slightly smaller ...

The term gokon is a contraction of godo konpa (合同コンパ), where godo means "joint" or "combined," and konpa itself is a contraction of either the German "Kompanie" or the English "company" (same meaning) ...

One of the most common obake-related activities during the summer is kimodameshi. Directly translated as a “test of your gut,” this is a type of outdoor game that challenges participants’ degree of ...

无论是来过日本、还是看过日剧的小伙伴，都可能会发现，日本生活中常出现一种很神奇的机器。 向机器中投入几枚日元硬币，转动机器旁的旋钮，伴随着两声“咔嚓”、“咔嚓”，就会有一颗 ...

身為溫泉王國的日本，除了溫泉數量驚人，溫泉更可因泉質劃分出10種類型，碳酸溫泉便是其中一種，相較於一般溫泉溫度偏低，加上泉中富含的二氧化碳，在接觸到皮膚時會成為氣泡，有輕微 ...

Stepping on the cloth border of a tatami mat may bring bad luck. Made of woven straw, tatami mats are very common in Japanese homes, and some contain family emblems on the borders, so stepping on them ...