A local's guide to Shizuoka—the best Mount Fuji views, real tea-country experiences, the hot springs of Izu, and why the place everyone speeds past on the Shinkansen rewards stopping.
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.
