• A cruise past the limestone cliffs of the Ara River
• A field trip to British Hills without leaving Japan
• A lesson on Renaissance era Venetian glass – visit the Hakone Glass Forest
• A lesson on wave erosion at Senbon-matsubara-hama Beach
• Back in time to the days of ancient burial mounds
• Beaches and coastal parks in Kanagawa prefecture
• Down History Lane: Edo Tokyo Tatemonoen (Edo Tokyo Open Air Architectural Museum)
• Down history lane: what to visit in Kamakura & why
• Ecorin village, Hokkaido, a whimsical and educational walk in the park
• Favourite nature activities for kids in Japan
  • Firefly watching
  • Gone beetle-hunting
    • Visit the “Beetle-Watching Natural Park at Kodomonokuni Kids’ Village Mushi-Mushi Land (Fukushima)
  • Gone crayfishing!
  • Hanami is a holistic activity for kids
  • Hiking Mt Tanzawa and the Lake Yamanaka area with a guide
  • Let’s go acorn-collecting
  • More nature activity suggestions
  • Silkworm raising …here we go round the mulberry bush, the mulberry bush
  • Tree Climbing in Japan
  • Turtle-watching
  • Warning: Beware the Japanese hornet
  • Whale-watching and dolphin-watching
• Field trip to Odawara Castle
• Finding your patch of green in Japan
• Fruit picking in the fall
• Heady historical trails
• Hiking mountains: Rokko Mountains, Okutama and Mt Fuji are options
  • Bouno Oreyama Hiking Trail (Saitama)
• Izu peninsula fieldtrip: Omuro-yama and Izu volcanism
  • Izu peninsula: Beach topography, towering cliffs and tombolos
    • Izu’s wonderful waterfalls & gorges
      • Taking nature notes in Izu Peninsula
• Japan Open-Air Folk Museum (Nihon Minka-en)
• Lake Akan (the “Fairy Lake”) in Hokkaido and the Marimo Museum
• Lessons by a river in Tanzawa
• Lessons by a waterfall
• Lessons by the sea
• Nature lessons on Yakushima Island
• Ocean hiking trails and beaches in the Miura area
• Off to Hakone On the Tail of a Typhoon
• Parks & green spaces of Tokyo
• Parks in the Miura area
• The Alpine experience: Echigo Yuzawa
• Try Rokko mtns, Oku-tama, Oku-Chichibu mtns, Mt Fuji, Northern Alps for the best hikes
• Visit a bird sanctuary: Osaka Nanko Bird Sanctuary
• Visit a ninja museum
• Visit Iya Valley for a geology lesson on the Fossa Magna fault structures & mountain formation
  • 3 geoparks sites making a bid for international geopark status
• Visit to the Kannonzaki lighthouse and coast
• Why not walkabout the Imperial Gardens?