A twenty-day Japan itinerary in cherry-blossom season, rated stop by stop: the full route on one map, every hotel with what it cost for two, and the Tokyo leg — Shibuya, Kamakura's Buddha, and Mt Fuji from the postcard pagoda.
The Kansai leg of a twenty-day Japan itinerary, rated: Osaka as the eating-and-sleeping base, deer that bow for crackers in Nara, a heavy and necessary day in Hiroshima, and Himeji castle in full bloom.
The finale of a twenty-day Japan itinerary, rated: Kyoto's temples and the strangest reservation system in food, a gold-leaf day in Kanazawa, seven baths in a yukata in Kinosaki Onsen, tea in Uji, and the loop back to Tokyo.