But there's one piece of tableware that seems both familiar yet unfamiliar — an oblong tatami coaster for a smartphone. This is the scene at Sushi Yatagarasu, a high-end omakase (chef’s choice ...

Inspired by the calm and peaceful atmosphere of traditional Japanese Ryokans, this central Bangkok apartment has been transformed into a flexible city escape by interior designer Mae Prachasilcha. The ...

Altounian makes her bed on a raised tatami platform inside her ADU in South ... “I ordered a bistro table and chairs, but it didn’t feel right,” she says. For now, she prefers to eat outside ...

Don’t expect raucous party scenes or over-the-top après-ski. In Japan, it’s all about the snow. Here’s a primer on where to ...

The Nakasendo road still exists in its entirety - as do dozens of the post towns it weaves between - and can form an epic ...

A ryokan is a Japanese boutique hotel, usually with an onsen attached, and traditional rooms with tatami-mat floors ... of ...

The house features custom tatami mats, elm flooring, a kotatsu table, a tokonoma, and storm, shoji, and fusuma doors. It also has sitka spruce floor panels, a glass sliding window and an entry ...

but by swerving peak hour we managed to score a table at Suishin Honten without much fuss. Sitting on tatami mats with our feet dangling through holes in the floor, we munched on pork hot pots ...

We indulge in a nine-course banquet around a horigotatsu, a low table on tatami flooring, which thankfully has a gap below to accommodate my long legs. Each course is exquisitely presented ...