In this special episode of Japan Podshow, we welcome back to the studio Honor Dargen and Shane Sakata, our guest travel experts, to talk about their groundbreaking Japan travel resource – Japan Discovered, a live Twitter tweet chat held every Friday.

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From their website:

The Japan Discovered! weekly Japan Travel Tweetchat will be hosted by Honor Dargan and Shane Sakata.

Honor has made Tokyo her since 2001 and owns TokyoTopia, a website dedicated to Tokyo travel planning. Her Goal – “Tokyo Made Simple”
Shane has spent five and a half of the last fifteen years in Japan and owns The Nihon Sun, Japan’s Online Culture and Travel Magazine.

How does it work?
Every Friday at Noon (Japan Standard Time) we answer your Japan travel questions on Twitter for an hour. You ask, we answer, and if we can’t answer your question straight away we’ll tell you and follow up with the answer on the Japan Discovered! website.

Follow Japan Discovered on Twitter to be reminded of upcoming chats and visit the Japan Travel Tweetchat page to follow along and post your questions.

Check out their blog www.japandiscovered.com to learn more.