Picks
The list, with the reasons
Short, opinionated picks. We tell you what to do, what to eat, where to go — and we show how we chose, including what we ruled out.
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Picks · travel
Kyoto: 3 days for the real thing
If Tokyo's hidden city lives at the edges of the salaryman shift, Kyoto's lives at the edges of tour-bus hours. Five anchors for three days that put you back into the Kyoto residents actually inhabit.
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Kyushu: 4 days for the craft underbelly
If you've already done Tokyo and Kyoto, the craft route through Kyushu — Yame matcha, Yatsushiro igusa, Kunisaki shichitou-i — is the trip that takes you out of the catalog and into where the craft is actually still being made.
5 picks · 3 min read
Picks · travel
Tokyo: 3 days for the real thing
If you only have three days in Tokyo and you want what locals actually do — not the Insta itinerary — these are the five things to anchor your visit around.
5 picks · 2 min read