Osaka's lively entertainment street along a canal, famous for giant neon signs, including the Glico running man, and for street food: takoyaki (octopus balls), okonomiyaki (savoury pancakes) and kushikatsu. Osaka is known as 'Japan's kitchen'.
Come in the evening when the signs light up. Kuromon Market is good for seafood. Osaka Castle, rebuilt in the 1930s, has a museum and park, and Universal Studios Japan is nearby.
Japan's first permanent capital, where more than 1,000 tame sika deer roam the park; buy deer crackers and they will bow to you.
A path through towering green bamboo in western Kyoto, which creaks and rustles in the wind.
The head shrine of Inari, the god of rice and business, famous for its thousands of bright vermilion torii gates, donated by businesses, which form t…
A Buddhist temple on a wooded hillside in eastern Kyoto, famous for its wooden stage, built without nails, jutting out over the valley, with views ov…
The Kyoto residence of the Tokugawa shoguns, who ruled Japan from 1603 to 1867.
A Zen temple whose top two floors are covered in gold leaf, reflected in a pond surrounded by pine trees and gardens.
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