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For momondo users, the most popular city in Japan is Tokyo, which is visited about 2,288% more often than any other city in Japan. Other very common cities that our users travel to are Osaka and Fukuoka.

Shinjuku Chuo Koen is the most popular place of interest in Japan. Many travellers make it a point to stop there while travelling to Japan. Other popular landmarks and places of interest in Japan would be Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden, Arima Onsen, or Arashiyama.

Japan throws some pretty massive festivals every year, showcasing its unique customs and heritage. New Year is taken a lot more seriously in Japan than in the UK. It takes place over a few weeks approaching 1 January, and is one of the longest and largest festivals in Japan, where it’s known as Shogatsu. It involves far more than just bringing in the New Year. Traditional foods are eaten during this time, with the focus on family time. Things immediately get a bit bizarre after that, so if you’re deciding on when to book flights to Japan, why not time it so you can attend Setsuban, the annual bean-throwing festival. Stages are set up in towns and cities around the country where celebrities throw their beans, while at home, families hold the mame-maki ceremony, where they throw soybeans to ward off evil spirits. For something spectacularly colourful, and also steeped in ancient Japanese tradition, Hamani, the Cherry Blossom Festival occurs at different times of the year in different parts of the country, any time between March and May, with cherry blossoms appearing first in the south. To celebrate the season, Japanese people hold picnics, tea ceremonies and sake parties underneath the trees.

Japan is well-known for its food, with sushi one of its most successful culinary exports. But that just scratches the surface of a fascinating culinary tradition that often uses ingredients that we would consider extremely exotic. That said, the national dish of Japan will probably surprise you – it’s simple curry and rice, only prepared a bit differently to what we’re used to. Japanese curry rice is made by cooking all the ingredients together so that it reduces to a thick, sticky texture. Traditional Japanese cuisine is based on the country’s age-old “rule of five”. This dictates using five colours (green, yellow, white, black and red), five flavours (sweet, sour, spicy, bitter and salty) and five preparation methods (raw, steaming, grilling, frying and boiling). The challenge is to represent them across an entire menu and in each dish. Sushi doesn’t need any introduction, and the next most well-known Japanese dish is tempura, which is simply battered vegetables or seafood. Yakitori is a dish that puts pieces of every part of a chicken on a skewer. It’s been eaten in Japan since the mid-1600s. An even older delicacy, thought to have been eaten as far back as prehistoric times, are the traditional tsukemono pickles. They’re actually made from a range of ingredients, including eggplant, plum, and daikon radish.

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