茨城県 · Kanto Region

Ibaraki Hidden Gems

Kanto's quiet garden — seaside cliffs, flower parks and one of Japan's great landscape gardens, all within reach of Tokyo.

2 spots

Climate & Best Season

Mild and relatively dry, with warm summers and little snow. Spring (nemophila) and autumn (kochia) are the signature seasons.

Monkfish is ugly, gelatinous and almost entirely edible — the Japanese phrase is that seven parts of it can be eaten, in…

Okakura Tenshin wrote The Book of Tea, ran the Tokyo School of Fine Arts, curated Asian art in Boston, and argued that A…