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Tips, Places, and Stories From Our Travels of ShikokuVideo of the Shimanami Area
Miho and I would love to show you a video of our most popular tour, Cycling the Shimanami Kaido. We've been to the islands hundreds of times, always with our camera in hand; but, whenever we get there, we get carried away riding our bikes, chatting to the owner of a...
How to get to Shikoku
Shikoku is the least visited island in Japan. Even though it is amazingly beautiful, very few people make the journey to see us...this makes us sad! We're trying to change that by having exciting tours and while we'd love you to spend all you holiday with us, we know...
Testimonials for Traditional Soba Making in the Mountains
This page will be updated when reviews come in. Minako 5/5 By Email The soba making was excellent. I like cooking and it was absolutely fascinating to make soba - the whole process - with local ladies. It was lovely to interact with them and eat locally grown soba and...
Testimonials for Matsuyama Tour for Cruise Passengers
This page will be updated when reviews come in. All testimonials taken from TripAdvisor. Keith H May 2019 5/5 Best Excursion Ever We booked a private tour for our stop in Matsuyama while on a cruise aboard the Diamond Princess. Miho was an excellent guide and we...
Testimonials for Matsuyama Food and Culture
This page will be updated when reviews come in. All testimonials taken from TripAdvisor. Sue_G_10 May 2019 5/5 Awesome food and culture tour of Matsuyama This tour was the big surprise on our first trip of Japan. We were passing through Shikoku/Matsuyama--only...
Testimonials for Shimanami Cycling Tour
This page will be updated when reviews come in. All testimonials taken from TripAdvisor. Janinechina14 June 19 2019 5/5 Shimanami Kaido A friend of mine told me they had done a great tour with Miho in Matsuyama so I looked at the website and saw that they also offered...
The Matsuayama Food & Culture Tour
After many hours of hard work, lots of cycling, exploration, and a few hikes here and there, Miho and I are finally ready to unveil our new tour! This is our homage to Ehime, and it symbolises everything we love about about the Japanese countryside. We've got a hike...
Japan is the world’s fastest-growing tourist destination
A British newspaper reported today that Japan is now the world's fastest-growing tourist destination, with 28.7 million foreign visitors in 2017. That figure is more than quadruple the number of tourists there were when I first got to Japan. Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka, they...
Places only we know
While we love showing off this part of the world and introducing places that most people don't get to see, we also need to keep a few places to ourselves. We hope you don't mind! We've got the best cycling in Japan, great tours with food and culture, wonderful hotels,...
The Best Cycling in Japan
Miho and I have long held that the Shimanami offers the best cycling in Japan. Now, other people are starting to agree with us! We were really glad to see this article by CNN. Why stop at Japan...they think that this is one of the best cycling roads on the planet...