Japan is unusually well suited to a honeymoon because the trip doesn’t have to feel the same from beginning to end. You can spend one evening looking across the Tokyo skyline, the next few days sleeping in a ryokan with a private onsen, then walk through Kyoto’s old streets before finishing beside the sea on … Read more
Three weeks is one of the best amounts of time you can have for a first trip to Japan. You have enough time to see Tokyo, Kyoto and Osaka without treating them as a checklist, but you can also go beyond the standard Golden Route and experience places that many shorter itineraries have to leave … Read more
A Hiroshima day trip is possible from both Osaka and Kyoto, but combining Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park and Miyajima in one day requires an early start and a realistic itinerary. The biggest mistake is assuming Hiroshima and Miyajima are beside each other. They aren’t. Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park is in central Hiroshima, while Miyajima requires … Read more