In-depth guides, local insights, and practical tips from our team on the ground in Japan.
In this article: Introduction Fukuoka has an airport twelve minutes by subway from the city centre. That single fact shapes the whole...
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In this article: Introduction Kyushu sits at the southwestern end of Japan, close enough to the continent that it absorbed Chinese and...
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In this article: Introduction For most of the Edo period, when Japan was closed to foreigners, one small fan-shaped artificial island in...
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In this article: Introduction Approaching Beppu by train, the first thing you see is steam. It rises from drains, from behind houses,...
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In this article: Introduction Takayama was too remote to be worth destroying. Ringed by the Japanese Alps, it was administered directly by...
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In this article: Introduction Three of the warlords who unified Japan — Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Tokugawa Ieyasu — came from this...
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In this article: Introduction Japanese religious architecture is usually restrained — unpainted wood, clean lines, deliberate emptiness. Nikko is the exception, and...
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In this article: Introduction Most travelers arrive in Japan knowing one word: arigatou. It gets used everywhere — to the hotel clerk,...
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In this article: Introduction High in the mountains south of Osaka lies Koyasan, a place unlike anywhere else in Japan — a...
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