It’s not hard to find decent noodles in Kagawa, the unofficial “Udon Capital of Japan.” The prefecture on Shikoku island is home to more than 700 restaurants that specialize in udon. You’re never more ...

With cobbled streets centred around a willow-lined canal, the historical quarter of Bikan in Kurashiki is one of the prettiest in Japan. It’s on the Seto Inland Sea coast; travellers can drift along ...

For more than a millennium, Kyoto flourished as the imperial capital of Japan. But in a seismic upheaval known as the Meiji Restoration, in which feudal shogunates gave way to a modern nation-state, ...