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The Sacred South: Market Tables, a Glass Furnace & Okinawa's Holiest Cape — 2 Days
Eat it, make it, feel it
The Yaeyama Islands: Ishigaki's Reefs & Taketomi's Buffalo-Cart Village — 2 Days
Closer to Taiwan than to Naha
The Wild North: Churaumi's Whale Sharks, a Ridge-Top Castle & the Yanbaru Forest — 2 Days
Past the resorts, into the green
The Onna Coast in Style: Halekulani, a Blue Grotto & Three of Japan's Best Resorts — 2 Days
The coast at its highest register
The Ryukyu Capital: Shuri's Castle, a 19th-Century Distillery & the Clay Lanes of Tsuboya — 2 Days
Two days inside a kingdom
Castle Towns & Stone Buddhas: Kitsuki & Usuki — 2 Days
The Oita most visitors never see
The Sacred Kunisaki Peninsula: Hachiman's Head Shrine & Cliff Buddhas — 2 Days
Japan-before-Japan, carved into the rock
The Carbonated Cure: Nagayu's Fizzing Springs & the Kuju Highlands — 2 Days
Hot water with bubbles, and the high moors above it
Yufuin Highland Retreat: Hot Springs, Art & Mt. Yufu — 2 Days
The gentle, arty side of the Onsen Prefecture
Beppu, Japan's Onsen Capital: The Hells, the Steam & the Sand — 2 Days
Steam you can watch, then stand in
Sacred Yoshino: Shugendo Mountain Pilgrimage & Cherry Slopes — 2 Days
Climb the mountain of the ascetics
The Cradle of Japan: Asuka Tombs & Imai's Edo Town by Bike — 2 Days
Ride into the origin story
Nara for the First Time: The Great Buddha, the Deer & Naramachi — 2 Days
Where Japan's first capital still stands
Karuizawa Highland Retreat: Forests, Chapels & a Hoshinoya Stay — 2 Days
A cool-air reset, 70 minutes from Tokyo
Hakuba in the Northern Alps: Alpine Luxury Above the Olympic Valley — 2 Days
The Olympic valley, done well
Snow Monkeys, Shibu Onsen & Zenko-ji: Nagano's Sacred North — 2 Days
A pilgrimage temple and monkeys in the bath
Walk the Old Nakasendo: Narai, Tsumago & the Magome Pass — 2 Days
Walk into the Edo period
Japan's Northern Alps for the First Time: Matsumoto Castle, Kamikochi & Azumino — 3 Days
Mountains without the mountaineering
Kyoto's Garden Canon: Kokedera's Moss, Katsura Villa, the Ryoan-ji Stones & Breakfast at a 400-Year-Old Kaiseki House — 2 Days
Six gardens, two days, three reservations
Second Trip to Kyoto? Go North: Kurama's Mountain Temple, Riverside Kaiseki in Kibune & the Valleys of Ohara — 2 Days
The Kyoto that doesn't queue
Kyoto Craft Connoisseur: Nishijin Looms, a 1560 Knife House & Throwing Kiyomizu-yaki at the Wheel — 3 Days
Three days on the maker's side of the counter
Kyoto Tea Pilgrimage: Make Wagashi with a Master, a Private Villa Ceremony & Grinding Your Own Uji Matcha — 2 Days
From leaf to bowl, in the city that codified it
First Time in Kyoto, Done Properly: Empty Shrines at Dawn, Two-Star Kaiseki & a Real Maiko Evening — 3 Days
The classics, re-timed for quiet
Kanagawa by Design: Sugimoto's Observatory, Hakone Glass & Yokohama's Architecture — 2 Days
Two days reading buildings
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