City Guides

Kamakura is one of the easiest day trips from Tokyo, and one of the most rewarding. It was the seat

Hiroshima is where Japan’s modern history is impossible to look away from — and where the city answered devastation by

Kyoto asks you to get up at dawn. Osaka asks you to stay out late. This city’s best hours run

Japan’s third-largest city is compact enough to cross in half an hour, but its two centers pull in opposite directions:

Kyoto looks compact on a map — a tidy grid tucked between mountains, a fraction of Tokyo’s size. Then you

Kyoto has roughly 1,600 temples. You’re only going to see a handful of them, and that’s completely fine — this

Kyoto has just two subway lines — that’s it — and between them they miss nearly every temple you flew

Most people treat Hakone as a box to check between Tokyo and Kyoto. A quick look at Mt. Fuji, a

There’s more to do here than in any city I’ve been to, and it still sorts itself into a handful

Here’s the thing about Tokyo: the hotel matters far less than the neighborhood it sits in. Tokyo is enormous, bigger

Tokyo is the easiest enormous city on earth to fall in love with. The world’s largest metropolitan area, home to

Here’s the truth nobody selling you a tour wants to admit: there’s no single best time to visit Japan. There’s