Matsumoto is the home town of the world-renowned artist Yayoi Kusama, and the Matsumoto City Museum of Art celebrates her bold, polka-dotted vision alongside other local artists. With eye-catching outdoor

Matsumoto, in the mountains of Nagano, is a handsome castle town and the gateway to the Northern Japan Alps. It pairs one of the country’s finest original castles with atmospheric

Minato Mirai 21 is Yokohama’s gleaming waterfront district, a planned area of skyscrapers, shopping malls, museums, and a seaside amusement park. At its centre rises the Landmark Tower, for years

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As one of the first Japanese ports opened to foreign trade, Hakodate wears its international history openly. The Motomachi district climbing the slopes of Mount Hakodate and the red-brick warehouses

The view from Mount Hakodate is famous as one of the finest night panoramas in the world. The city’s unusual hourglass shape, pinched between two bays, lights up after dark

Kobe is famous for one of Japan’s three great night views, and Mount Rokko and neighbouring Mount Maya rise directly behind the city to deliver it. The sweep of glittering

Nagoya Castle is the city’s defining landmark, a grand fortress topped by golden shachihoko, the mythical tiger-fish that gleam from its roof. Built in the early Edo period as a

Nagoya is Japan’s fourth-largest city and the gateway to the central Chubu region. Often overlooked by travellers rushing between Tokyo and Kyoto, it rewards a stop with a grand castle,

A short walk from Matsumoto Castle, the old merchant quarters of Nakamachi and Nawate preserve the atmosphere of an Edo-period castle town. Lined with white-walled storehouses, craft shops, and cafes