A serene luxe hideaway on the Izu Peninsula
— by Kiyofumi Machida
Escape to a remote alpine village
— by Makiko Asano
Explore Kyoto's backstreets on two wheels
— by Hiroko Wakayama
Gajóen Tokyo: the hotel that thinks it’s a gallery
— by Claire Ross
Get under the skin of Japan on an escorted group tour
— by Richard Pearson
Getting an insider view of old Kyoto
— by Claire Ross
Going backstage at Tokyo’s fish market
— by Takeaki Shibuya
How to spend a day in Kyoto, from frenetic markets to real-life geishas
— by Hiroko Wakayama
How to spend a day in Tokyo - shrines, shoguns and the Shibuya Scramble
— by Ken Yoshioka
Inside sacred Koyasan through the eyes of a monk
— by Nobuhiro Tamura
Learn how to swing a real samurai sword
— by Ken Yoshioka
Oyado Koto no Yume: a traditional ryokan in Takayama
— by Ms Akira
Stay in an authentic Japanese ryokan at Hoshokaku, Takayama
— by Katsuyoshi Dentani
Susukinohara Ichinoyu, a hot-spring hideaway in Hakone
— by Hirofumi Chiba and Masaki Nakano
Taste your way round Kyoto's sake district, Fushimi
— by Hiroko Wakayama
The lost art of sugar sculpting
— by Claire Ross
The not-so-simple cup of tea
— by Claire Ross
The pretty-as-a-picture fishing village
— by Takeaki Shibuya
Tokyu Hotel: the modern face of Kanazawa hospitality
— by Zhi Yang
Waqoo Shitaderamachi: the Osaka temple-style lodging with cosy beds
— by Mr Hirai
