Osaka –
Of the 42 million tourists who visited Japan in 2025, many relied on an excess of short-form online videos for travel inspiration, tips and guides. Be it Instagram reels aggregating the best of Japan has to offer or TikTok clips promising “hidden gems” and “the real Japan,” the online content creation scene centered on optimizing visits to Japan has become its own cottage industry.
But for visitors interested in hiking some of Japan’s 12,000 peaks or trekking its 27,000-plus kilometers worth of trails, one of the most useful resources isn’t a highly produced reel — it’s a website known as Lost Filipina.
The site contains detailed, step-by-step guides to Japan’s hyakumeizan (the country’s 100 most famous peaks) and hundreds more, making it one of the country’s most comprehensive — not to mention free — English-language hiking resources.
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