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      CONTENTS

       INTRODUCING JAPAN

       TIMELESS JAPAN

       NOW AND FUTURE JAPAN

       WASHOKU: JAPANESE CUISINE

       JAPAN’S COLORFUL MATSURI

       RYOKAN AND ONSEN

       1 TOKYO

       GINZA AND THE IMPERIAL PALACE

       ASAKUSA, UENO AND THE EAST END

       AKIHABARA

       OMOTESANDO, HARAJUKU AND SHIBUYA

       SHINJUKU

       ROPPONGI

       SOUTHERN TOKYO

       2 SIDETRIPS FROM TOKYO

       YOKOHAMA

       KAMAKURA

       MOUNT FUJI AND HAKONE

       NIKKO

       THE JAPAN ALPS AND KANAZAWA

       3 KYOTO AND THE KANSAI REGION

       KYOTO

       NARA

       OSAKA

       HIMEJI

       KOYASAN

       4 WESTERN HONSHU AND SHIKOKU ISLAND

       HIROSHIMA

       MIYAJIMA ISLAND

       JAPAN’S INLAND SEA

       SHIKOKU

       5 KYUSHU AND OKINAWA

       FUKUOKA

       NAGASAKI

       BEPPU HOT SPRINGS

       YAKUSHIMA ISLAND

       NAHA AND OKINAWA

       6 NORTHERN HONSHU AND HOKKAIDO

       TOHOKU

       SAPPORO AND OTARU

       WESTERN HOKKAIDO

       SHIRETOKO AND THE KUSHIRO WETLANDS

       PHOTO CREDITS AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

      Billboards at Kabukicho in Shinjuku.

      Japanese maple trees in a peaceful setting.

      The sparrow dance, first performed to celebrate the completion of Sendai Castle.

      The biggest of Japan's eleven Pokémon Centers is in Ikebukuro, Tokyo.

      A pretty confectionery purse.

      Some of the best things to do in Tokyo include having beer and yakitori chicken skewers at Omoide Yokocho (Memory Lane) (top left), enjoying awesome views from the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building (middle left) or Tokyo Tower’s observation deck (top right), and visiting the iconic Sensoji Temple (center).

      Taking a rickshaw ride could be a fun way to see the sights.

      INTRODUCING JAPAN

      It has become something of a cliché to talk about Japan in terms of contrasts, but Japan really is a country defined by juxtapositions. For all of Japan’s technological advances, not to mention the unquenchable thirst for the new and the next you see in cities like Tokyo, Japanese society is still rooted deep in tradition. Timeless and cutting edge comfortably sit side by side, as do the sacred and the cute. Japan prides itself on an appreciation of nature, yet nowhere seems safe from concrete, a vending machine or a gaudy pachinko parlor. No wonder the country can bemuse first-timers just as much as it can keep surprising old hands.

      Nagoya City Science Museum

      Sensoji Temple

      Nara Park

      Hachimangu Shrine

      Fushimi Inari Shrine

      Ginkakuji Temple

      Umeda Sky Building

      Traditional Restaurant

      TIMELESS JAPAN

      A Modern Nation That Still Values its Traditional Past

      Progress is unrelenting and rapier in many fields and facets of Japan, yet there’s no shortage of areas where the country happily stands firm against the drifting sands of time. Just cast your eyes over a typical tourist brochure, where kimono-clad geisha shuffle between appointments in Kyoto’s Gion district, Mount Fuji stands capped in white and

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