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.
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Beneath Japan’s Dream Bridge
Far northern Tohoku was the right place kick off my first purely touristic sojourn to Japan in nearly three years.
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Early 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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