Should you visit the Akita Festival or Aomori Festival—or both?
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Summertime Singularity
The issue isn’t that you got lost, but that you found yourself.
Continue ReadingBeneath Japan’s Dream Bridge
Far northern Tohoku was the right place kick off my first purely touristic sojourn to Japan in nearly three years.
Continue ReadingEarly Birds, Late Blooms
Sakura season—for me and for Japan—was so close to its conclusion that even the birds knew.
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