Japan Travel Guide

It’s safe to say that there’s nowhere else like Japan. Historic isolation lead to the development of a decidedly distinct culture, anything but left-behind in its current-day bullet-speed race into a modernized future. In Kyoto you’ll find the temples, tea ceremonies and tempura that comprise your visions of traditional Japanese culture. Tokyo is Japan’s neon-lit face of the future, complete with the high-tech gadgets, high-powered business men and highly crowded trains. But even here, tradition is brought along for the ride, as cherry blossoms brush against the sides of skyscrapers. Throw in tropical coral reefs, misty mountain villages and cloud-shrouded ski slopes, and Japan promises to be everything you expect—and then some.