Best Hotels Near Kintetsu-Tomita Station | The Hikers’ Junction
The junction where cement trains and flower-mountain hikers share a platform — a plain-spoken base north of Yokkaichi.
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Best Hotels Near Matsusaka Station | The Beef Castle Town
Japan's beef capital is also a lovely castle town — sukiyaki temples, samurai terraces and a great scholar's…
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Best Hotels Near Kuwana Station | Clams, Conder & the Resort Next Door
The grilled-clam town of the old Tokaido — a Conder villa, castle moats, and Japan's wildest coasters ten…
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Best Hotels Near Tsu Station | The One-Syllable Capital
Japan's shortest city name hides a National Treasure temple town, a great Kannon, and an unagi habit worth…
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Best Hotels Near Kintetsu-Yokkaichi Station | Teapots, Tonteki & Factory Constellations
Mie's biggest city — purple-clay teapots, garlicky tonteki, a toy-gauge railway, and industrial constellations after dark.
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Mie Food Guide: Matsusaka Beef at the Source, Ise Udon & the Oyster Shacks of Toba
Mie’s ancient name was Umashi-kuni — “the land of good food” — and the prefecture has spent two…
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Kumano Kodo Iseji: The Pilgrimage Route Through Mie That Foreigners Haven’t Found Yet
When overseas hikers say “Kumano Kodo,” they mean the Nakahechi route through Wakayama — deservedly famous, increasingly busy.…
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Iga & Akame 48 Waterfalls: Real Ninja Country and the Training Gorge of Mie
Iga, in the mountains of western Mie, is one of the two birthplaces of the historical ninja (the…
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Ise Jingu the Local Way: Katamairi, Dawn Pilgrimages & the Merchant Quarter Nobody Sees
Ise Jingu is Japan’s most sacred Shinto site — 125 shrines centered on the Inner Shrine (Naiku) and…
Read more →Ise-Shima Ama Divers: Lunch With Japan’s Last Free-Diving Women & the One-Wish Shrine
The Shima Peninsula south of Ise is home to the world’s largest remaining community of ama — women…
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