Best Traditional Go Baduk and East Asian Board Game Heritage Tour Destinations
Browse more guides: Japan travel | Asia destinations Best Traditional Go Baduk and East Asian Board Game Heritage Tour Destinations TL;DR Go - substantially the East Asian strategic board game called weiqi (China), igo (Japan), and baduk (Korea) - has substantial cultural-tourism heritage across Japan (considerable professional-go scene with sizable Tokyo concentration), Korea (significant Seoul professional baduk infrastructure), China (extensive Beijing weiqi scene). Various parallel East Asian board games include large Chinese xiangqi (Chinese chess), major Japanese shogi (Japanese chess). Plan focused trips combining game cultural-tourism with ample broader Asian cultural-tourism. This is a meaningful intellectual-and-cultural heritage with sizeable accessible cultural-tourism infrastructure for international visitors interested in substantial strategic board games. Background Go heritage substantially extends back considerable 4,000+ years (sizable Chinese-origin at...