Japan’s most FUN and CHALLENGING way to eat noodles! 🍜🇯🇵 Instead of being served in a bowl, these thin somen noodles rush down a bamboo water slide, and you have to catch them with ...

Japan is home to 27,000 hot springs sources, but overtourism has reduced some of the country’s onsen water supply to a record ...

Nagashi somen is a practice in which customers use chopsticks to try to scoop up thin somen noodles as they flow down a bamboo chute filled with running water. The Ishikawa prefectural ...

Indonesian product designer Singgih Susilo Kartono has launched initiatives to revitalize deserted villages by producing unique products utilizing local natural resources such as bamboo.

But not every pool of heated water qualifies as an onsen. Japan has strict laws governing one of the country’s most iconic activities, widely considered a natural treasure. Onsen water is heated ...