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The Journey
The harbor crossing on the Star Ferry at dusk is still one of travel’s great moments.
The port for Taipei: night markets, the Palace Museum and beef noodle soup worth the flight alone.
Coral reefs and Kabira Bay’s green-on-blue lagoon, Japan’s far tropical south.
Okinawa’s capital: Shuri Castle, island pace and the East China Sea.
Castle town on Shikoku’s Pacific coast, with Japan’s liveliest street market.
Japan’s kitchen: street food in Dotonbori, a castle above, and Kyoto forty minutes up the line.
Mount Fuji across the bay on a clear morning, and tea fields rolling to the shore.
The world’s largest city, and somehow its most orderly: sushi at dawn, neon at night, and a shrine around every corner.
Japan’s kitchen: street food in Dotonbori, a castle above, and Kyoto forty minutes up the line.
Korea’s second city: fish markets, beach neighborhoods and temples on the cliffs.
A fishing port of crab boats beneath the sand dunes of the San’in coast.
Edo-period streets, a samurai quarter and Kenroku-en, one of Japan’s three great gardens.
Sake country on the Japan Sea, with Sado Island offshore.
Samurai houses at Kakunodate and the deepest lake in Japan up the valley.
Apple country and the Nebuta museum’s glowing festival floats.
Iwate’s dramatic Sanriku coast, cliffs and clear coves.
The city of trees, gateway to Matsushima’s pine-covered islands.
The port for Tokyo’s north: Hitachi Seaside Park’s blue nemophila hills in spring.
The world’s largest city, and somehow its most orderly: sushi at dawn, neon at night, and a shrine around every corner.
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