Everyone who visits Japan will inevitably visit some famous temple or shrine, snap a few pictures and be done with it. But your visit can be made more memorable if you collect Goshu-in, unique stamps that each shrine or temple makes for visitors. You’ll need a special book which opens accordion style, which you will…
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判子 Hanko
Unlike Western cultures which typically use a signature to validate an official document, Japan uses a stamp, called a hanko 判子to make a document official. There is very little you can do as a resident of Japan without one, so hanko is on the short list of things to buy when you arrive. Fortunately, hanko are…
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