Category: Japan

Fall in Japan: Food, Festivals, and Foliage

October 5, 2010 / / 2 Comments

The fall season is evident everywhere in Japan, so here I’ve picked three elements and three places to experience them.

FOOD – Tokyo

For the Japanese, food presentation is as important as quality and taste, and everything looks so incredibly good! Here are some tasty pictures from the food halls in the basement floors of Tokyo Department stores, where presentation is everything, and everything is presented in the seasonal theme: AUTUMN.





FESTIVALS – Kurashiki

This festival just seemed to spring up out spontaneously out of nowhere, and the whole town poured out to participate.

FOLIAGE – Nikko

Where else but Nikko National Park to capture the colorful changing of leaves in Japan? I imagine this place is beautiful any time of year, but to catch the fall foliage was an incredible treat for my senses!


Fall Foliage in Nikko – Images by Kymri Wilt

This feature has been posted to WanderFood Wednesday, where you will find more tasty links and blogs featuring food!

Tea & Geishas

October 18, 2008 / / 2 Comments


I love my job. No really, I love my jobs! When I’m not behind the camera, I am in front of some pretty fantastic people. And I make a living traveling the world with them. And doing it in grand style. And staying in the best hotels. And dining out in the very best restaurants. And meeting the local people. And having cultural encounters that only a lucky few ever experience in their travels. Yep, you guessed it, I’m a Travcoa Travel Director.

In Japan, that means a lot of things. I get to stay at the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo. I get to ride the First Class Bullet Trains. And I get invited into a Japanese home for a traditional Tea Ceremony.




And what of Geishas, you ask? While others pound the pavements of Kyoto frantically hoping to catch a glimpse of the elusive Geishas, I managed to place myself and my travel companions in the exclusive company of not one, but three Geishas for an entire evening.

They served, we ate.


They danced, we applauded.

They entertained us in traditional drinking games, and we obliged.

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