Japan, by neighborhood
For travelers who already know they're going to Japan, and want to spend their planning on the small places top-10 lists skip.
Most Japan guides send everyone to the same handful of places. These go the other way — neighborhood deep-dives and tight themed lists, built around the cafes and small museums most top-10 lists ignore. Every place gets verified on Google Maps before the piece ships, and every piece is dated so you can see how recent the call is.
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10 days in Japan: the Golden Route from Tokyo to Osaka
A ten-day Golden Route plan across Tokyo, Hakone, Kyoto, Nara, and Osaka, with the trains and tickets worked out and the loop closed back to Tokyo.
Kiyosumi-Shirakawa: Tokyo's coffee-and-museum neighborhood
An old timber-merchant district in eastern Tokyo, now better known for specialty coffee, contemporary art, and one of the city's quieter historic gardens.
Kanazawa in two days: the garden, the castle, and the teahouse streets
A two-day plan for Kanazawa, the Maeda clan's old castle town on the Sea of Japan coast: its great garden, a ring of small museums, and the teahouse districts along the rivers.