The decisions that cause the most trouble at weddings in Japan are usually made before anything looks like a wedding. After years of planning celebrations across the country, these are the ten things we wish couples knew before they booked anything.
Read the storyTokyo 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…
A villa garden that borrows its mountains, then Murou Art Forest, the hillside in Nara that Dani Karavan made into one work…
On Miyako Island, the sea decides when a sandbar appears, rain disappears into coral limestone, and a family gathers beside the water.…
Her father told them they now had three homes: New York, Shenzhen and Cairns. In the hills of Miyagi, they gave the…
Every spring, Japan’s cherry blossoms move north. This couple followed them almost all the way: a quiet place in Aomori, a cellist…
Their third wedding brought Greek traditions, Japanese hospitality and people from around the world together at a ryokan in Japan. What began…
Fuji was hidden all morning, so we moved the proposal and watched the sky. At two o'clock she opened one eye, the…
