Destination Guides
Wakayama: Koyasan and the Kumano Kodo
A monastery town of 117 temples on a mountain plateau, a pilgrimage route walked for a thousand years, and a night sleeping…
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Destination Guides
Hyogo: Himeji Castle, Kobe and Arima Onsen in Two Days
Japan's finest surviving castle, a port city rebuilt after an earthquake that changed the country, and a thousand-year-old hot spring twenty minutes…
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Aomori: Nebuta, Apples and the Far North
The top of Honshu: a festival of illuminated paper warriors, a castle with 2,600 cherry trees, a 5,000-year-old village, and more snow…
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Sendai and Matsushima: The Easy Way into Tohoku
Ninety minutes from Tokyo and almost no foreign visitors. A city of tree-lined avenues, a bay of 260 pine islands, and the…
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Fukuoka: Kyushu’s Gateway and Its Yatai Streets
Japan's most liveable big city, with an airport five minutes from the centre, the country's last real street-food stall culture, and the…
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Mount Fuji and the Fuji Five Lakes: Where to Actually See It
The mountain is visible about eighty days a year and almost none of them are in summer. Which viewpoints work, which month…
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Hakone: The Onsen Loop from Tokyo
A switchback train, a funicular, a ropeway over a volcanic vent, a boat and a bus — all on one ticket, in…
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Nagano: Snow Monkeys, the Alps and Zenkoji
Japan's roof: eight of the country's ten highest peaks, a 1,400-year-old temple that predates the split in Japanese Buddhism, and macaques that…
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Kanazawa: Kyoto Without the Queues
A castle town that escaped the bombing, with one of Japan's three great gardens, an intact geisha quarter, a serious modern art…
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Nara: The Day Trip Everyone Rushes — and How Not To
Most visitors see Nara in three hours: the Great Buddha, some deer, and a train home. The other two-thirds of the park…