About ExploreJapanDaily
ExploreJapanDaily is an independent Japan travel website run by Andrew Liyan. It is not owned by a travel company, tour operator, or parent business. The site helps travelers compare destinations, attractions, transport options, and itineraries, and its planning tools help turn those choices into a workable trip.
Andrew Liyan
Andrew Liyan runs ExploreJapanDaily and writes its guides: destination and attraction pages, itineraries, transport and planning guides, and travel news. Every guide on the site carries Andrew's byline, and this section is the author profile those bylines link to.
Our guides draw primarily on firsthand travel experience in Japan, supported by official and reliable sources for practical details such as opening hours, admission fees, transportation and visitor rules. We aim to make every guide useful, accurate and straightforward to plan with.
A byline does not mean every place in a guide was visited in person.
How We Research and Check Information
Practical details come from the people who run the place or service: attraction and temple websites, railway, bus, and airport operators, government agencies, and official tourism boards. We prefer those sources over secondhand summaries, and many guides link to them so you can confirm a detail yourself.
Opening hours and admission fees are taken from the operator's own published information. Where an attraction page has a recorded check, it shows a "Facts verified" date for that work. Fares, pass prices, visa rules, and seasonal dates change often, so those topics are flagged for scheduled review and rechecked when a source changes. We do not continuously recheck every fact on every page, and an update date is not a guarantee that each detail is still current. Check the official source before you book or travel.
Each guide shows when it was last updated. That date reflects the last meaningful content change, not a cosmetic edit. Our editorial policy describes the process in more detail.
Corrections
If something is wrong or out of date, tell us the page URL, the statement concerned, and a supporting source if you have one. We check the report against official information and correct errors we can verify.
How the Site Is Funded
ExploreJapanDaily may earn a commission when readers use some referral links. Those relationships are disclosed next to the recommendation, and we do not accept payment in exchange for favorable coverage of any attraction, hotel, or business. Our affiliate disclosure explains how this works.
Contact
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