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Japan travel tips

11 guides in Japan — when to go, how to get around, which ATMs not to use, and what a fair price looks like.

TokyoJapanWhere ancient tradition meets neon-lit future

KyotoJapanA thousand temples and the old soul of Japan

OsakaJapanJapan's kitchen, and the one city where people talk to strangers

HiroshimaJapanA city rebuilt around the one building it left standing, and a floating gate an hour away

NaraJapanThe first permanent capital, with the biggest bronze Buddha in the world and twelve hundred deer that bow for a biscuit

HakoneJapanHot springs in a volcanic caldera, with Fuji across the lake on the mornings it shows itself

SapporoJapanDeep snow, beer brewed since 1876, and the best powder skiing in the world an hour away

KanazawaJapanA garden three hundred years in the making, gold leaf on everything, and a samurai district that survived the war

OkinawaJapanA subtropical chain with its own kingdom, its own language and the clearest water in Japan

TakayamaJapanA merchant town of dark wood in the Japanese Alps, an hour from thatched villages under deep snow

NikkoJapanA shogun’s mausoleum buried in cedar forest, with waterfalls and a marshland plateau above it