DESTINATIONS

On a spring morning in western Shizuoka, the air smells faintly of steamed leaves and sun-warmed cut grass. A […]

Shiga is more than a lake view: trace canals, merchant towns, and lakeshore communities at a pace that leaves room for ordinary life.

Most travelers flying into Tokyo spend their first night recovering from jet lag, then point themselves south

Most people who visit Tottori come for the sand. The dunes stretch along the Sea of Japan coast like a landsca

The boat barely makes a sound as it drifts downstream. The boatman — *sendo* (船頭) in Japanese — doesn’t

The first time I arrived in Hokkaido in February, the taxi driver from New Chitose Airport said almost nothing

The ferry slides into port as the sun goes down, and for a moment the island stops being a postcard and starts