The full Taian 2027 calendar of lucky wedding days in Japan, checked day by day: which dates fill first, why only fifteen fall on weekends or holidays, and the case for choosing an unlucky Butsumetsu instead.
Read the storyThis week: new stays in Tokyo and Fukuoka, two new tables in Jiyugaoka and Kyoto, a later autumn colour forecast, and the…
An elopement in Japan deserves as much thought as a wedding for two hundred. Our guide covers the legal side, where to…
We first wrote this page in January 2022, when the answer was no. The answer now is yes. What couples and their…
It rained on Tokyo for thirty-seven days in a row, and on one of them, a couple married at Jinya. Their gothic…
Sixty-six guests were waiting at their Tokyo welcome party. Before they walked through the door, a break in weeks of rain gave…
The decisions that cause the most trouble at weddings in Japan are usually made before anything looks like a wedding. After years…
Tokyo venue changes, a Kobe wedding-page discrepancy, September’s rainfall record and a rail-pass price check, plus a foodie detour to Tsuruoka.
After one visit to Japan, they decided to return with the people closest to them. At Asaba, a boat crossing, two families’…
A Melbourne couple, a question he couldn't keep in, and one clear October morning at Kawaguchiko. He'd asked us for pampas grass…
Japanese has one word for the snow on Mt Fuji's summit and the white hood a bride wears with her shiromuku. A…
