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Itoshima Coast: White Torii, Cliffs & Beach Cafes — 2 Days
The sea, slowly
Hakata Food Pilgrim: Ramen, Hotpot & the Yatai — 2 Days
The city that eats at the counter
First-Time Fukuoka: Hakata's Shrines, Castle & Dazaifu — 2 Days
The city in a day, then the old capital
Wakasa: Tsuruga's Great Shrine, the Five Lakes & Obama's National-Treasure Temples — 2 Days
Kehi Jingu's great wooden torii and the red-brick warehouses of Tsuruga, the colour-shifting Mikata Five Lakes from a hilltop sky-terrace and a lakeside onsen, then Obama's National-Treasure temple buildings, a maple garden temple, Wakasa lacquered chopsticks and the start of the Mackerel Road
Echizen-Ono's Castle in the Sky, the Moss Shrine of Heisenji & Katsuyama's Dinosaurs — 2 Days
The 'castle in the sky' and samurai streets, spring wells and 470-year morning market of Echizen-Ono, then the moss-carpeted forest shrine of Heisenji Hakusan, the world-class Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum and the Katsuyama Castle Museum
The Echizen Crafts Corridor: Handmade Paper, Lacquer, Blades, Eyewear & Pottery — 2 Days
The 1,500-year papermaking village of Echizen with a hands-on washi workshop, the paper-god shrine and a working papermaker's house, the forged-blade co-op of Echizen knives, then the lacquerware hall at Kawada, the eyewear museum of Sabae and the kilns of Echizen-yaki pottery
Tojinbo Cliffs, Awara Onsen & the Mikuni Port Town — A Fukui Coast Escape, 2 Days
The basalt sea cliffs of Tojinbo and a cruise beneath them, the sacred island of Oshima, a seafood lunch and a refined Awara Onsen ryokan, then the preserved kitamae merchant town of Mikuni Minato with its Meiji bank, shrine and a crab-and-sushi table
First-Time Fukui: Eihei-ji Zen, the Castle City & Japan's Oldest Keep — 2 Days
Eihei-ji, the Soto Zen head temple, then Fukui City's Yokokan water garden and castle ruins, and on day two Japan's oldest castle keep at Maruoka, Asuwa Shrine's cherry avenue and a bowl of Echizen oroshi-soba
Eastern Ehime: The Sacred Mountain & the Copper-Mine Frontier — 2 Days
Mt Ishizuchi by ropeway, the spring-water town of Saijo and its railway park on day one, then the Besshi copper mine and the Akagane museum at Niihama on day two — two days in the rugged eastern end of Ehime, based at a business hotel in Saijo
Uwajima & the Deep South: A Castle, a Garden & the Terraced Sea — 2 Days
Uwajima Castle, the Tensha-en garden, the Date museum and the bullring on day one, then the terraced fields of Yusumizugaura and the Nametoko gorge on day two — two days in the deep south-west of Ehime, based at a historic ryokan in Uwajima
Uchiko & Ozu: Two Little Castle Towns of the Hijikawa — 2 Days
Uchiko's Meiji merchant street, its wax-museum residence and its old playhouse on day one, then Ozu Castle, the Garyu Sanso villa and cormorant fishing by torchlight on day two — two slow days in the 'little Kyoto' of the Hijikawa valley, staying in a restored townhouse hotel in Ozu
The Shimanami Kaido: Island-Hopping by Bike from Imabari — 2 Days
Imabari Castle, the great Kurushima bridge and the pirate museum of Oshima on day one, then the Oyamazumi shrine, the Tatara Bridge and the Imabari towel country on day two — two days riding the Ehime half of the Shimanami Kaido, based at a cyclists' lodge on Omishima
First-Time Matsuyama: Dogo Onsen, the Castle & the Old Hot-Spring Town — 2 Days
Matsuyama Castle and its garden, a French-style villa and the Okaido arcade on day one, then Ishite-ji temple and two of the Dogo bathhouses on day two — a first-timer's two days in the capital of Ehime, based at a historic ryokan beside Dogo Onsen
Inland Chiba for the Return Visitor: Realist Art, the Yoro Valley & Otaki Castle Town — 2 Days
The Hoki Museum of photo-realist painting and a city garden, then the Yoro Valley's waterfalls and 'black-water' onsen, a beloved rural railway, and the old castle town of Otaki
Southern Boso for Two: Kamogawa Onsen, Wild Sea-Bream & Katsuura's Dawn Market — 2 Days
Kamogawa's Nichiren birth-temple, a boat among the wild sea bream of Tainoura, a famous oceanarium and a seafront onsen night, then Katsuura's dawn market, an undersea tower, fiery tantanmen and Onjuku's camel-statue sands
Chiba's Eastern Cape: Choshi's Nostalgic Railway, Soy Sauce & Inubosaki Lighthouse — 2 Days
The clattering Choshi Electric Railway, a centuries-old soy-sauce works, a fishing-port seafood lunch, the brick Inubosaki lighthouse, the curve of the earth and the Byobugaura sea cliffs
Chiba by Tokyo Bay: Mt Nokogiri's Hell-Peek, the Bay Ferry & Mother Farm — 2 Days
The Tokyo Bay ferry to Kanaya, Mt Nokogiri's ropeway, the cliff-carved Great Buddha and the 'Hell-Peek' overhang, a fisherman's seafood lunch, then Mother Farm and Cape Futtsu's Fuji view
First-Time Chiba: The Narita Pilgrim Temple & Sawara's 'Little Edo' Canal Town — 2 Days
Naritasan Shinshoji's daily fire rituals and eel-lined pilgrim street, then Sawara's willow-lined 'Little Edo' canal, the surveyor Ino Tadataka's town, and the ancient Katori Jingu
Shirakami & the West Coast: Blue Ponds, a Sea-Cliff Onsen & a Scenic Train — 2 Days
The blue ponds of Shirakami and a sea-edge onsen, then a scenic train to apple country
The Shimokita Peninsula: Sacred Volcano & the Tip of Honshu — 2 Days
The sacred volcano of Osorezan, then the white cliffs and tuna at the tip of Honshu
Tsugaru Crafts & Shamisen: A Maker's Road Through Western Aomori — 2 Days
Goshogawara floats and a lamp-lit secret onsen, then Hirosaki's craft and shamisen
Towada, Oirase & Hakkoda: A Mountain & Onsen Retreat — 2 Days
Hakkoda's heights and historic baths, then the Oirase gorge walk to Lake Towada
First-Time Aomori: The Bay City & Castle Town of Hirosaki — 2 Days
The bay city of festivals and apples, then the old castle town of Tsugaru
Mount Chokai & the Kisakata Coast: Basho's Sea of Islands — 2 Days
Basho's drained lagoon of islets, a sea-view onsen, and the great volcano above
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