Use the form on this page for three things: a guest-post pitch in food, travel or culture; a correction with a primary URL; or an organiser link to a program you actually publish.
Do not send visa applications, passport images, or payment-card data. Do not use this form to ask us to invent a ranking.
The form posts by AJAX to FormSubmit for callum.sherwood.seo@gmail.com. If it fails, write that address directly. This project must not send test submissions through FormSubmit.
If you needed the consulate, stop here and open melbourne.au.emb-japan.go.jp. If you needed tourism campaign creative, open japan.travel. Those desks are not staffed by this site.
A useful pitch is short. Tell us the heritage slug or hub you want to sit beside, the sources you already have, and the claim you will not make. We would rather receive five citations than a paragraph of adjectives.
Corrections are welcome when a handbook URL moves, when a sister-state page is updated, or when we have blurred a category. They are not welcome as a way to smuggle a live "now open" restaurant claim back onto the domain.
This contact page is part of the independent rebuild. It is long because people used to treat japaninmelbourne.com.au as a noticeboard, a listings product and a press room at once. It is now an editorial inbox. The distinction protects readers and it protects you: if we cannot cite it, we will not publish it, even if the email is friendly.
If you are an organiser, send the page you control. If you are a student pitching a prefecture essay, send the official prefecture or JNTO URL you will walk through. If you are a reader who found a broken redirect, send the old path and the page you expected. Those three emails are the job.
Everything else — guest-list requests, sponsored "top ten" placements, requests to republish an archived interview — will be declined in one line. The archive is a reference for information architecture, not a content store we can empty into the new templates.
Thank you for writing like a person who has already opened a source. That is the entire culture of this inbox.
How this hub should be used
Read the sections above as orientation, then leave the page. A good use of a Japan in Melbourne hub is to open two official tabs beside it: one government or foundation source, and one presenter or university handbook. If you cannot name those two tabs, you are not finished.
We repeat the independence line because readers still arrive from archived posts that once sounded official. japaninmelbourne.com.au is not the Consulate-General of Japan in Melbourne, not JNTO, and not The Japan Foundation, Sydney. Those organisations publish the notices that matter for visas, tourism campaigns, J-Course and the Japanese Film Festival Australia. We link them. We do not impersonate them.
Facts we will repeat, and facts we will not
We will repeat a sister-state date that two government pages agree on: Victoria and Aichi Prefecture, 2 May 1980 (Embassy sister cities, Aichi partners). We will repeat that the Japanese Film Festival Australia describes itself as beginning in 1997 (JFF about). We will not repeat attendance boasts, "best in Melbourne" lists, or a restaurant's rumoured hours.
If a guest post needs a number, the number must live on a page we can link. If it cannot, the sentence comes out. That rule is why this rebuild can sit next to a Capes-tier visitor guide without copying that guide's invented confidence.
Guest posts that belong beside this hub
Food, travel and culture essays are welcome when they add a cited angle: a prefecture produce page, a handbook subject code, a museum program, a transport operator notice. They are not welcome as advertorials, as live venue lists, or as republished interviews. Send the pitch through /contact/.
Old category URLs — gourmet, event, shop, interview, beauty — 301 toward the hub that now owns the topic. If you bookmarked a CMS address from 2012, you should land on a real article with a footer, not on a soft-404 dressed as a homepage.
Accessibility, money and the unglamorous checks
Ask operators about stairs, seating, allergens, photography rules and whether a program is bilingual. Ask airlines and issuers about fares and passes. Ask Smartraveller about advice that can change with a government notice. This site will not invent those answers to look complete.
If you are a student, the University of Melbourne Japanese Studies pages and the Monash Japanese studies handbook are the enrolment truth. If you are a traveller, Smartraveller on Japan is the advice truth. If you are a filmgoer, jffau.jpf.go.jp is the program truth.
A closing note on tone
Indigo, sakura, sumi and washi are the colours of this rebuild. The tone is calmer than a tourism reel and stricter than a listings app. We would rather send you away slightly under-informed and honest than fully entertained and wrong. That is the entire editorial personality of japaninmelbourne.com.au.
What to do after you finish this page
Choose one next action that is not "open another blog". If this hub is food, walk a grocery aisle and read a label. If it is culture, open the Japan Foundation or ACMI listing that is actually live. If it is events, find the presenter. If it is language, open a handbook. If it is shopping, confirm a retailer. If it is travel, open Smartraveller. If it is the guides index, pick one heritage slug and read it through. If it is about or contact, send a source or do not write at all.
That one action is how Japanese Melbourne stays a city rather than a mood board. The footer disclaimer will still be there when you come back.