Chūbu is all about mountain peaks, sacred shrines, ancient trails, and unique wildlife. This central region on Japan’s main island is made up of nine spectacularly diverse prefectures. And it shows.
The Nakasendo Way, or Nakasendo Trail, is a road through the interior of Japan’s Honshu island. In feudal times, this trail—which passes through the Japanese...
Kanazawa is one of those places that exists in the gaps between history, myth, and imagination—a place that meets the traveler’s own impressionistic ideas of...
Located in central Honshu, Japan’s Gifu Prefecture combines a range of landscapes, from humming city streets to rural mountain terrain, that travelers won’t want to...
