Adventure Trip
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Best Hotels Near Matsumoto Station | The Black Castle & the Alps Gateway
The crow-black national-treasure castle, Kusama's dots, storehouse streets — and every bus to Kamikochi leaves from here.
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Best Hotels Near Uenohara Station | Yamanashi’s Tokyo-Side Trailhead
The first mountain station out of Tokyo — ridge trails, a river gorge, and honest advice on its…
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Best Hotels Near Nirasaki Station | Gateway to Mizugaki & the Southern Alps
The basin's northwestern gate — granite spires of Mizugaki, a famous lone cherry tree, and the Southern Alps…
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Best Hotels Near Tsuchiura Station | Lake Kasumigaura & Japan’s Cycling Capital
A station rebuilt around bicycles — ride the lake, sleep beside your bike, and catch one of Japan's…
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Best Hotels Near Tsukuba Station | Science City & the Twin-Peaked Mountain
Rockets, robots and a sacred twin-peaked mountain — Japan's planned science city is 45 minutes from Akihabara.
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Best Hotels Near Ugo-Honjo Station | Gateway to Mt. Chokai
The castle-town base for Mt. Chokai — a charming rural railway, koi-filled moats and the quiet Sea of…
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Akiyoshidai & Akiyoshido: Japan’s Greatest Karst Plateau, Lamp-Lit Caves & a Cobalt Spring
Akiyoshidai is Japan’s largest karst plateau — a rolling green upland studded with white limestone pinnacles, the fossilized…
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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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Tottori Sand Dunes Done Properly: Sandboarding, the Sand Museum & the Uradome Coast
The Tottori Sand Dunes stretch sixteen kilometers along the Sea of Japan — the country’s largest accessible dune…
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Nageiredo at Mt. Mitoku: Climbing to Japan’s Most Dangerous National Treasure
Halfway up a cliff on Mt. Mitoku in central Tottori, a small wooden hall stands wedged into a…
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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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