Most of the route is now on modern roads, but the section that runs through the Gifu prefecture is an ideal two-to-three-day walk, plunging you back into rural Japan of the feudal era. I begin my ...

The coastline here is as beautiful as it is battered, in a region that has traditionally seen few tourists. But that’s starting to change.

“That was so Japanese,” Bill said of her unseen performance. “Everything indirect, through shades, through suggestion.” After dinner I took a walk. (It was becoming a habit.) Like many ...

Honoring Japanese philosopher Nishida Kitaro, who used to stroll here on his commute to Kyoto University in the early 20th century, the Philosopher's Walk is a roughly mile-long pathway along the ...