From classic sights to lesser-known gems and transport tips to seasonal highlights, here’s the lowdown on visiting Japan.

One of Japan’s most popular ramen bars, Mensho Tokyo, is expanding to Los Angeles with a location in Culver City. Founded in ...

upscale shops, and trendy cafes. Photograph by David Guttenfelder, Nat Geo Image Collection Chefs use red pepper and Sichuan ...

I’ve lived in a few big cities in my life. I grew up in Australia, spent a fair amount of time living in Singapore, and have ...

Restaurants in Tokyo ... Best Restaurants list. No one has done as much to give Japan’s green tea culture a boost as interior designer Shinichi Ogata and his Higashiya wagashi (confectionery) shops.

But Houston and ramen? I considered it an afterthought at best. I would choose ... these three new ramen shops. If you’ve ever hunched over a bowl of ramen in Tokyo, you know that the city ...

opening its first store set up only with vending machines offering items from instant ramen to personalized name stamps. The roughly 60-square-meter shop in Tokyo's Shibuya district is packed ...

It claims to be the oldest onigiri restaurant in Tokyo ... Japanese foods like ramen and sushi have found worldwide popularity, she notes. At her cheerful, modern shop, workers wearing khaki ...

Though most ramen shops in Tokyo bought their noodles premade, he made his by hand. He spent hour after hour experimenting in a noodle room filled with a table and bins of flour, the air often ...