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SMALL THINGS, NEW DISCOVERIES

Everyday Japan

Food, drinks and countryside stories.

A rice ball from the station shop. A drink to try. Fields passing beside the train. Get to know the small things that make a journey through Japan memorable.

Two triangular onigiri rice balls wrapped in nori on a plate.A first bite.Green fields below Mount MikamiA new way to look.

01 · TASTE JAPAN

Something to try along the way.

Familiar names for the next station shop, neighbourhood stall or meal.

Onigiri rice balls wrapped in nori seaweedSMALL FOODSSmall foods for your journeyOnigiri, warm buns and sweet stops — six familiar foods to get to know.Read the story A shelf of Japanese tea drinksJAPANESE DRINKSJapanese drinksTea, coffee and soft drinks: discover the names on the shelf.Read the story Japanese beer for a journeyJAPANESE BEERJapanese beerFind a lager for your journey and meet the breweries along the railway.Read the story

02 · EVERYDAY COUNTRYSIDE

Look at the landscape between the cities.

Fields, green waves and pale roofs: ordinary things with stories of their own.

Green rice fields below Mount Mikami in ShigaFIELDS & FARMSJapan’s countryside, from your windowRice paddies, open fields, tea gardens and silver greenhouse roofs.Read the story Greenhouse roofs around GamagoriLOOK A LITTLE CLOSERGreenhouses beside the railwayLook closer at the pale roofs on the hills around Gamagori.Read the story

KEEP YOUR CURIOSITY

What else caught your eye?

Giant nets, unfamiliar towers and other passing shapes. Start with the thing you noticed.

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Photographs

Onigiri: Ocdp · CC0. Resized to a maximum edge of 1200 px and converted to WebP; no visual retouching. Responsive crop.

Drinks, beer, rice fields and greenhouses: Michikusa. Location and photograph notes are provided in the linked stories.