Street Notes: The Side Streets of Yanaka
Beyond Yanaka Ginza, old houses, quiet temples, antique shops and everyday streets offer a glimpse of a slower, older Tokyo.
Day Notes: The Quiet Details of Takayama
Takayama wears its history unusually well. More than four centuries after it developed as a castle town in Japan's mountainous Hida region, its past is still easy to see at street level.
Street Notes: Our Favorite Tokyo Neighborhood(s)
The Tokyo neighborhood we return to for good shops, great streets and plenty of reasons to wander.