Last year, JR Central announced that it would discontinue its free-seating tickets on Tokaido Shinkansen’s Nozomi trains during peak travel seasons. This policy affects periods including the New Year ...
First-time visitors to Japan face overwhelming choices about where to go in a country that could occupy years of travel. The Golden Route—Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka, with occasional additions like Hiroshima ...
The moon in Japan is not like our moon. There is no man in there, for one thing. No man, no horn, no cow. It’s nighttime in Kyoto, and Shima Enomoto, one of my guides, is pointing up at the sky. “Can ...