Best Hotels Near Akashi Station | The Meridian Town of Octopus & Bridges
Japan's clock is set here — and so is its octopus standard: Uontana market, true akashiyaki and the…
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Best Hotels Near Tsuruhashi Station | Osaka’s Koreatown of Charcoal Smoke
Step off the platform into charcoal smoke — yakiniku alleys, kimchi markets and Japan's great Koreatown, honestly based.
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Best Hotels Near Namba Station | Dotonbori’s Neon Heart
The Glico runner, Kuromon's grills, Hozenji's mossy lantern alley — and your airport train waits downstairs.
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Kyoto Cafe Culture: The Pancakes, Purikura & Photo Spots Behind a Japanese Girls’ Trip
Introduction: The Café Circuit Is the Actual Itinerary Ask a group of Japanese women planning a Kyoto girls’…
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Shimonoseki: Fugu at Karato Market, the Boy Emperor’s Shrine & Walking Under the Sea to Kyushu
Shimonoseki sits at Honshu’s southwestern tip, where the Kanmon Strait narrows to 700 meters against Kyushu — a…
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Tsunoshima Bridge & Beyond: Japan’s Most Beautiful Drive, a Climbable Lighthouse & Kawara Soba
If you have watched a Japanese car commercial in the last two decades, you have seen Tsunoshima Bridge:…
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Mt. Daisen: Western Japan’s Fuji — Beech Forests, Sacred Slopes, Soft-Serve & Snow Crab
Daisen rises 1,729 meters straight off the Sea of Japan coast — an old volcano whose western profile…
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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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Golden Gai: How to Actually Drink in Shinjuku’s 200-Bar Maze
Golden Gai is a preserved scrap of postwar Shinjuku: six pedestrian alleys holding roughly 280 bars, most seating…
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Omoide Yokocho (‘Memory Lane’): Eating Yakitori in Shinjuku’s Tiny Alley
Omoide Yokocho — “Memory Lane,” though everyone also knows its ruder postwar nickname — is a pair of…
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