A local's guide to Wakayama—sleeping among monks on Mount Koya, walking the Kumano Kodo pilgrimage trails, and standing beneath Nachi, Japan's tallest waterfall.
A local's guide to Tochigi—Nikko's lavish UNESCO shrines, Kegon Falls and Lake Chuzenji, the gyoza city of Utsunomiya, and how to plan it as a day trip or overnight from Tokyo.
A local's guide to Oita in Kyushu—the steaming hot-spring city of Beppu, the refined onsen town of Yufuin, and the temples and samurai streets most visitors never reach.
A local's guide to Nagasaki—the only port open during Japan's isolation, its Chinese and European layers, the atomic-bomb sites, and the food that exists nowhere else in Japan.
Mount Takao receives more visitors than Mount Fuji—around 2.5 million a year. Here's how to use that fact against itself: the trails, temple, food, and seasonal timing that make Takao worth the trip.
