Japan Travel – Details, episodes & analysis

Hear Nathan Eden discuss Japan's ski industry, introduce his lodgings in Myoko Kogen (✔ 16m of snow ✔ kids ✔ vegan), describe his business during pandemic winters, explain how his wife's cancer influenced his career, and share best trip memories in Aka-jima (worst too!), Hagi (✔ LGBTQ+), and Yunohira. He recorded and shared his favourite sound (snow clearer), and expands on his favourite taste (iekei ramen) and smell (natto!).

Host: Sébastien Duval

Guest: Nathan Eden, owner of Myoko House and Myoko Apartments (Niigata prefecture).

Support: Jessy Mauco

Online highlights:

• [RYAN GANDER] https://imdb.com/title/tt7010438/
• [AKA-JIMA] https://visitokinawajapan.com/destinations/kerama-islands/aka-island/
• [HAGI] https://en.japantravel.com/permalink/65293
• [YUNOHIRA] https://discover-oita.com/en/destinations/beppu-and-yufuin/yunohira-onsen/

Related episode: "Jerome Lee Interview".

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Get to know Jerome Lee, who compares Singapore & Japan, introduces his online tours business, discusses luxury/hobby/inclusive trips in Japan, and shares best tourism memories in Kamikochi, Naoshima and rainy Yakushima.

Host: Sébastien Duval

Guest: Jerome Lee, founder of FourWinds, ex-director of Japan Travel KK's travel department.

Support: Jessy Mauco

Online highlights:

• https://jpsnowsports.com
• https://www.socialinnovationjapan.com/en/home
• [SAKURA KANKO] https://489.fm
• [KAMIKOCHI] https://en.japantravel.com/permalink/13275
• [NAOSHIMA] https://en.japantravel.com/kagawa/naoshima-island
• [YAKUSHIMA] https://en.japantravel.com/kagoshima/yakushima

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What to expect? Why launch this podcast? Plus origins of the community, mission statement, motivations and expectations by travel experts, and memories of the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami (11 March 2011 - exactly 11 years ago). Thanks to all the guests!

Host: Sébastien Duval

Guests in order of appearance:

1. Geoff Day, COO for Japan Travel KK (Tokyo).
2. Bonson Lam (Australia).
3. Alena Eckelmann, Partner (Wakayama).
4. Tristan Scholze, Partner (Fukuoka).
5. Peter Sidell, Partner (Kanagawa).
6. Bryan Baier, Partner (Osaka).
7. Jessica Paje, Partner (USA).

Our travel agency is looking for a full-time German-speaking junior travel consultant! Job goals, tasks, conditions, benefits, German market data, team, work environment…

Host: Sébastien Duval

Online highlights:

• [GERMAN] https://japantravel.de
• [PLANNING & MORE] https://en.japantravel.com

Discover our day at Tokyo Tokyo Delicious Museum food festival: 5 surprises, Michelin Stars, Japanese & world food (✔ vegan ✔ Muslim), influencer's tasks & thoughts, organization (✔ wheelchair ✔ kids), tips for next time…

Host: Sébastien Duval

Guest: Mehdi Fliss, influencer in Japan, Instagram @sugoiijapan.

With voices from:

• Australia (Anna Yoshida),
• China (Ushin Cho),
• Germany (Maria Neumann),
• Japan (Kota Hasegawa).

Online highlights:

• [OFFICIAL] https://tokyotokyo-delicious-museum.jp
• [SAIDO] https://edition.cnn.com/videos/travel/2020/02/21/saido-vegan-restaurant-tokyo.cnn/video/playlists/destination-tokyo/

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Get to know Bryan Baier: canyoning, paragliding, sandboarding, pearl date, top nature smells & sounds, child dream, way in, better life in Japan than USA, trip disappointments & tips, tourism consulting… and inclusive Osaka (✔ vegan ✔ Muslim ✔ blind ✔ wheelchair ✔ kids ✔ LGBTQ+).

Host: Sébastien Duval

Guest: Bryan Baier, Partner for active tourism, Instagram @bryanbaier. In episodes "in 7 minutes", "Golden Week".

Online highlights:

• http://zero-para.co.jp
• https://canyons.jp/en/tour-product/minakami/canyoning/fox-canyon
• https://evergreen-hakuba.com/canyoning
• https://iseshima-kanko.jp/en/see-and-do/1599
• https://ponshukan.com
• https://sakyu-vc.com/en/activity/1587/
• [BAREFOOT GEN] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1319091/
• [HIDA] https://youtu.be/JFwBqmk1a60
• [PEARL] https://en.japantravel.com/permalink/68643
• [SAND] https://en.japantravel.com/permalink/2505
• [URADOME] https://en.japantravel.com/permalink/2564

Get to know Bryan Baier in Osaka at the speed of light! You like what you hear? Full 1-hour interview in the next episode: details, examples, follow-up questions…

Host: Sébastien Duval

Guest: Bryan Baier, Partner for active tourism.

Discover Japanese public holidays, focusing on the Golden Week: origin, details, thematic/timely places to love (✔ wheelchair ✔ pushchair)…

Host: Sébastien Duval

Guest: Bryan Baier, Partner for active tourism.

Online highlights:

• http://edowonderland.net/en/
• https://ghibli-park.jp/en/
• https://www.env.go.jp/en/nature/nps/park/
• https://www.showakan.go.jp
• [IESHIMA] https://en.japantravel.com/permalink/53196
• [TATEBAYASHI] https://en.japantravel.com/permalink/60957

Pro focus: news (✔ law ✔ MICE ✔ sustainability), internships & jobs (✔ podcast ✔ wheelchair), report about our day at JTS… How was it? Surprises? Interest in foreigners? Next event? Attendee tips? Plus 43s of a Japan Travel KK internal meeting by sales manager Kota Hasegawa and COO Geoff Day.

Host: Sébastien Duval

Special thanks to Justin Velgus (Sendai Tourism, Convention and International Association) for details!

Online highlights:

• https://japan-ts.jp/en
• https://kamuylumina.jp
• https://visit-suruga.com/en
• https://www.dinosaur.pref.fukui.jp/en
• https://www.japanmeetings.org/virtualvisit
• https://www.takikawaskypark.jp/tic_en
• https://www.wildlife-picchio.com

Hear community voices with bonus info/tips about cherry blossoms, spring dreams, nature/life/work/travel during spring… And a Q&A about Japan now: Covid-19, domestic & international trips…

Host: Sébastien Duval

With messages by listeners from Japan, China, Indonesia, Thailand, UK, USA, Vietnam… and voices from:

• Australia (Nathan Eden),
• Germany (Alena Eckelmann),
• Italy (Luca De Pasquale),
• Portugal (André Moreira).