Japan

Three weeks is long enough to get past the tourist surface in Japan. The first week I was in Tokyo and the big sites like Mt. Fuji. The second and third I went further and slower. The food evolution was interesting — matcha everything everywhere but prepared so differently by region. extraordinary …

Visited Japan for 6 days. The positives are real: Mt. Fuji is every bit as impressive as advertised, and the food scene around Tokyo is genuinely excellent — try ramen if you haven't. seamless public transport was an unexpected bonus. That said, cash-heavy society. It's not a dealbreaker but worth …

Visited Japan in shoulder season deliberately and the decision paid off completely. Mt. Fuji without peak crowds is a totally different experience. Hiroshima felt lived-in rather than touristy. Found a small place doing the best matcha everything I've ever tasted — something that would have been inv…

Took the family to Japan for 21 days and it worked better than I'd hoped. The kids were fascinated by Fushimi Inari Shrine — more than I expected from children who usually resist sightseeing. Food was manageable: even the pickiest eater in our group found things to eat, and matcha everything went do…

Mt. Fuji in Japan is extraordinary — the scale and history hit you immediately. But the experience around it has been thoroughly commercialised. Getting there, navigating the crowds, and dealing with persistent sellers around Osaka centre made it more stressful than it should be. Away from the main…