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Destination and food guides written in English, mapped to the prefecture they belong to.
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- Hokkaido: 1 guide
- Aomori: 1 guide
- Iwate: no guides yet
- Akita: 5 guides
- Miyagi: 1 guide
- Yamagata: 1 guide
- Fukushima: 1 guide
- Ibaraki: 1 guide
- Tochigi: 4 guides
- Gunma: 3 guides
- Saitama: 5 guides
- Chiba: 5 guides
- Tokyo: 5 guides
- Kanagawa: 4 guides
- Niigata: 2 guides
- Toyama: 4 guides
- Ishikawa: 2 guides
- Fukui: no guides yet
- Yamanashi: 2 guides
- Nagano: 3 guides
- Gifu: 3 guides
- Shizuoka: 3 guides
- Aichi: 1 guide
- Mie: 2 guides
- Shiga: 2 guides
- Kyoto: 10 guides
- Osaka: no guides yet
- Hyogo: 2 guides
- Nara: 3 guides
- Wakayama: no guides yet
- Tottori: 2 guides
- Shimane: 3 guides
- Okayama: 1 guide
- Hiroshima: 1 guide
- Yamaguchi: no guides yet
- Tokushima: no guides yet
- Kagawa: 1 guide
- Ehime: 2 guides
- Kochi: 5 guides
- Fukuoka: 1 guide
- Saga: 1 guide
- Nagasaki: 1 guide
- Kumamoto: 2 guides
- Oita: 2 guides
- Miyazaki: no guides yet
- Kagoshima: 3 guides
- Okinawa: 4 guides
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Ueno Zoo — Tokyo's Oldest Metropolitan Zoo in Ueno Park
Ueno Zoo is Tokyo Metropolitan's historic zoological garden in Ueno Park, opened on 20 March 1882; it is Japan's oldest…
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Destination guides with history, context, and what to expect on arrival.
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Regional dishes explained: origin, technique, and how they are eaten.
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Each guide names the sources it draws on, pins the place on a map, and shows when it was published.
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Travel Tokyo
Ueno Zoo — Tokyo's Oldest Metropolitan Zoo in Ueno Park
Ueno Zoo is Tokyo Metropolitan's historic zoological garden in Ueno Park, opened on 20 March 1882; it is…
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Food Okinawa
Chanpurū Okinawa: the tofu-and-vegetable stir-fry at home
Chanpurū is an Okinawan home stir-fry of tofu and vegetables; its signature is island tofu browned before…
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Travel Nagasaki
Urakami Cathedral, Nagasaki — rebuilt 1959 Romanesque cathedral
Urakami Cathedral is a Romanesque Catholic cathedral in Nagasaki, destroyed by the atomic bomb on 9 Aug 1945,…
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Travel Kanagawa
Odawara Castle Hojo stronghold and national Historic Site
Odawara Castle is a hill-and-plain castle in Odawara, Kanagawa; the Hojo clan's stronghold, a Japanese…
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Travel Kyoto
Amanohashidate — the 3.6 km sandbar in Miyazu, Kyoto
Amanohashidate is a 3.6-km bay-mouth sandbar in Miyazu, Kyoto Prefecture, counted among Japan’s Three Views…
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Travel Kyoto
Arashiyama Riverside, Temples and Mountain Trails in Kyoto
Arashiyama is a 382 m mountain and district in Kyoto known for the Togetsukyo Bridge, temples and cherry and…
From the kitchen
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Food Okinawa
Chanpurū Okinawa: the tofu-and-vegetable stir-fry at home
Chanpurū is an Okinawan home stir-fry of tofu and vegetables; its signature is island tofu browned before…
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Food Okinawa
Okinawan cuisine pork, soba and Ryukyuan foodways
Okinawan cuisine is the food of Okinawa Prefecture, marked by abundant pork, Okinawa soba, subtropical…
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Food Kagoshima
Sakezushi, Kagoshima's rice-and-sake fermented sushi
Sakezushi is a Kagoshima regional sushi of rice seasoned with local jizake (a haimotsuzake) layered with…