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The Mighty Autumn Colors (opens the original)
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Good afternoon,It is an ordinary late August day in Tokyo, with the exception of the unusually tolerable summer weather that I would rather not discuss any further, so as not to jinx it.But I hope this relatively good weather will carry us all the way through autumn, the timing and meaning of which is a rather complex topic in Japan.First, with the main school year and financial calendars following an April-to-March cycle, September doesn’t have the same fresh-start feel that it does in many oth
Planning a Trip to Japan: Guides, Ideas & Resources (opens the original)
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I have written a lot about traveling in Japan over the years, but the archive now lives in quite a few different places. Between this Letters from Japan newsletter and my travel website, Letters from Asia, there are now guides, itineraries, travel diaries, hiking and walking routes, and all sorts of posts scattered across the two. So I thought it was time to bring them together in one place, in an index-style post. So here we go.The collection below covers both the practicalities of Japan travel
Summer in Japan: The Hokkaido Edition (opens the original)
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Good afternoon,It is peak season in Tokyo for lotus flowers, which you can find in abundance in Shinobazu Pond in Ueno if you visit before 9 a.m., and heat-induced trauma, which, more selfless than the lotus, will find you as soon as you step out the door.<i
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