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Fukuoka

  1. City discovery

    Try ramen in Fukuoka

    Eat tonkotsu ramen at a riverside yatai stall and photograph it.

Hakone

  1. City discovery · Yumoto

    Learn the order of a Japanese onsen

    You wash sitting down and rinse completely before you get in, you bring the small towel but never let it touch the water, and you do not wear anything. Do it properly — and photograph the bathhouse.

Hatsukaichi

  1. City discovery · Miyajima

    Wait for the tide under the floating torii

    At Miyajima the great vermilion gate stands in the sea, and twice a day the water goes out far enough to walk to its feet. Time your visit to the tide — and photograph it.

Hiroshima

  1. History · Naka

    Stand before the only building left at the hypocentre

    The dome was almost directly under the blast and is the one structure that did not fall. It has been left exactly as it stood on 6 August 1945. Stand there — and photograph it.

Kanazawa

  1. Nature · Kenrokumachi

    See Kenroku-en's pine trees roped for snow

    One of Japan's three great gardens, and every November its pines are hung from bamboo poles with rope cones so the branches survive the weight of the snow. Go in winter — and photograph it.

Kyoto

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Nara

  1. Nature · Todaiji

    Stand under the Great Buddha at Todai-ji

    Fifteen metres of bronze cast in 752, inside what was for twelve centuries the largest wooden building on earth — and the deer outside bow to you for a biscuit. Go in — and photograph it.

Osaka

  1. Food · Namba

    Eat until you fall over in Dotonbori

    Osaka has a word for it — kuidaore, to ruin yourself by eating — and this canal of takoyaki stands, crab signs and the running Glico man is where it happens. Eat your way along — and photograph it.

  2. History · Chuo

    Climb Osaka Castle for the city and the moat

    The keep stands on cyclopean stone walls that survived everything the tower above them did not, and the top floor looks out over the whole plain. Go up — and photograph it.

Shikoku

  1. City discovery

    Walk the Shikoku 88-temple pilgrimage (Japan)

    Walk the centuries-old circuit of 88 Buddhist temples in white pilgrim's robes — and photograph it.

Shirakawa

  1. City discovery · Ogimachi

    Sleep in a thatched farmhouse at Shirakawa-go

    The gassho-zukuri houses have roofs pitched like hands in prayer to shed four metres of snow, and some take guests. Stay a night — and photograph it.

Tokyo

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