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A Week in
Hokkaido & Tohoku
• Sip the local beer and tuck
into a lamb barbecue in
Sapporo, Hokkaido’s
modern capital.
HOKKAIDO • Get a close-up view of an
Sapporo active volcano and bathe in
Lake hot springs in the Shikotsu-
Shikotsu
Lake Toya Shikotsu-Toya National Park Toya National Park.
Noboribetsu • Survey Hakodate from the
top of Mount Hakodate,
and admire the port’s late
Hakodate
19th-century buildings.
• Admire the massive lanterns
created for the Neputa
festival in the castle town
Hirosaki
of Hirosaki.
• Explore the samurai and
merchant quarters of
Kakunodate Kakunodate, including
thatched homes and
lovely gardens.
Hiraizumi
Dewa Sanzan • Be dazzled by the Golden
Shrine
Matsushima Bay Hall of the temple complex
Sendai of Chuson-ji, in Hiraizumi.
Sado Island • Count the pine-clad rocky
Niigata islands of Matsushima Bay
and admire the beautifully
Wajima
HONSHU decorated Zuigan-ji Temple.
Noto Peninsula
Obuse
Kanazawa
Nagano
Ogimachi
Matsumoto 0 kilometers 200
Takayama 0 miles 200
Amanohashidate Kiso Valley Tokyo
Matsue Tsumago Fuji Five Lakes
Mount Fuji
Himeji Nagoya
Okayama Osaka A Gourmet Tour of Central Japan
Hiroshima Kurashiki Kobe
Miyajima Takamatsu
Kotohira • Known as the gateway of A-frame thatched
Fukuoka Matsuyama to the Alps, explore houses in the
SHIKOKU Nagano and its famed Shokawa Valley.
Karatsu Bay Yufuin Beppu
Zenko-ji Temple, and • Sip sake and sample
Aso sample soba noodles.
Nagasaki mountain vegetable
Kumamoto • Meander through the dishes and succulent
Takachiho
verdant Kenroku-en Hida beef in the
KYUSHU Garden and the cutting- appealing mountain
edge contemporary art town of Takayama.
Kagoshima museum in Kanazawa. • Hike along part of the
• Drive around the scenic ancient stone-paved
Noto Peninsula, post road connecting
pausing for the daily Tsumago and Magome,
food market and for in the Kiso Valley.
lacquerware shopping • Climb the keep of
in Wajima. the handsome castle
Naka Bridge, Takayama • Marvel at the World that is at the heart
Floats crossing the Miya river as part of the Heritage architecture of Matsumoto.
beautiful Takayama cherry blossom festival.
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