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Toyama and the Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route
Six modes of transport in one day, from sea level to 2,450 metres, through a corridor cut in twenty metres of snow.…
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Destination Guides
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…
Destination Guides
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…
Destination Guides
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…
Plan Your Trip
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…