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Japan with Children: What Works, and What to Skip
Japan is one of the easiest countries in the world to travel with children, with two exceptions: hotel rooms are sized for…
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Where to Stay in Kyoto: The Five Areas, and the New Lodging Tax
Kyoto is a city you see before nine in the morning, which makes where you sleep matter more than it does in…
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Where to Stay in Tokyo: Which Area, and What a Night Costs
In Tokyo you are not choosing a neighbourhood so much as a station. Six areas that work for a first trip, what…
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Accessible Japan: Travelling with Limited Mobility, a Buggy or Big Luggage
Japan is better than almost anywhere for step-free rail travel and worse than you would expect at the last hundred metres. What…
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Where to Stay in Japan: Hotel, Ryokan, Business Hotel or Minpaku
Six kinds of Japanese accommodation, what each actually costs, and why the cheapest chain hotels are better than the international brands at…
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Staying Connected: eSIM, Pocket Wi-Fi or Roaming?
You will use maps and translation constantly, so this is infrastructure rather than a convenience. Four options compared on real prices, with…
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Money in Japan: Cash, Cards, ATMs and Tax-Free Shopping
Japan is far less cash-dependent than its reputation and still more than northern Europe. Where cards work, where they do not, which…
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What to Pack for Japan — and What to Buy After You Land
Pack for 15,000 steps a day, small hotel rooms and a lot of taking your shoes off. Half the list everyone tells…
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14 Days in Japan: Getting Past Tokyo, Kyoto and Osaka
Two weeks is enough to leave the golden route and still see it. A rail-based loop through Kanazawa, Takayama and Hiroshima that…
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The Classic 7-Day Japan Itinerary (and How to Stretch It to 10)
Two cities, one Shinkansen, three day trips and no repacking after day four. The route that works for a first week in…