Travel Jan 5, 2018
Finding a little historical perspective in Iwate's Hiraizumi
by Stephen Mansfield
World Heritage site steeped in history remains largely free of tourists.
Travel Aug 23, 2014
Cheap train to the north with Basho
by Davey Young
On July 19, the Yamagata Shinkansen debuted a luxury ashiya (foot bath) service. A ticket from Tokyo to Yamagata City, in Tohoku Prefecture, costs around ¥11,000, but 15 minutes in the foot bath car is extra. If Matsuo Basho, Japan's most well-known poet, were ...
Voices | VIEWS FROM THE STREET May 7, 2014
Iwate: Do you think the 2020 Tokyo Olympics will have any positive effect on Tohoku?
by Louise George Kittaka
Interviewees in Hiraizumi, Iwate Prefecture, are divided on the whether any of the promised 2020 Tokyo Olympic feelgood factor will touch Tohoku.