Asia Travel Blog

Maybe not many Indonesian tourists know that Japan has a magnificent destination, pearl island. This destination was located on Mikimoto, Mie prefecture, it’s about 150 km west Nagoya. You can the demonstration to pick a pearl from bottom of the sea. Mikimoto is well known as a center of pearl in Japan. From the raw until become [...]

Well, Japan is becoming one of fashion orientation, especially with Shinjuku’s style. In Jakarta, you can find many teenagers whom affected with that style. Furthermore, duo Maia-Mulan’s style once spread the style in their performance. In the first week of this month, there was a Japan Fashion Week event. It was held on Sept 1-7, 2008. Even [...]

Garuda Indonesia re-open flight Nagoya-Bali, since there are many business prospects such as tourism or export-import trading. Of course, those prospects must be managed properly before they were launched as a product that will be offered to the customers. Export-import trading that can be done such as art (hand made), furniture, souvenir, and many more. For [...]

Recently, a kimono festival was held in Kyoto, Japan. Kimono is a traditional dress from Japan, using only by a woman. Recently, kimono is rarely being used, since the kimono is quite heavy and complicated to be worn. In kimono festival in Kyoto, many women were dressed like princess. The festival was started by pageant from Gosho [...]

Plenty to say about Shizuoka Prefecture in Japan. It is where the sacred Mount Fuji located, making Shizuoka a perfect spot for the beautiful Fuji-san photo picture hunting. It is also where the earliest cherry blossom starts in Japan.   Another thing that Shizuoka is well-known for is its green tea. Almost half of green tea [...]

Here is another way of maximizing your travel adventure in expensive city like Tokyo, but still, you can minimize your travel cost. Getting around could be costly in Tokyo. Especially when there are too many places to visit. Get yourself a One-day Tokyo Metro Subway Ticket and youll find that by the end of the day, [...]

Where to stay in Japan can be quite costly, especially when you are to travel to big cities like Tokyo. But not to worry. A hostel would be just the right choice to keep on going with your Japan travel plan, but still, stay on budget! Here I feature one for you planning to go to [...]

On Feb 2-4, Kyoto will held Setsubun Festival. Setsubun means the day before the beginning of each seasons and is celebrated yearly on Feb 3. During this festival, many shrines and temples will do special rituals in order to cleanse away all the evils, which many people believed, are relieved on their body. So, the people [...]

One way of telling whether you are a truly Japan lover or not is by measuring how deep your desire in eating fish or other kinds of seafood is. I am not making this up! In fact, this fact has made me from once not too fond of eating fish (not to mention raw fish) [...]

One reason why I love Japan very much is its food, don’t you?! But frankly, it took some time for me to finally like the Nihon shoku (J-food). I can still laugh at myself when I remember how I was first introduced to this. Me, together with 5 other Indonesian students to go to Japan [...]