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This morning we were up early and at the dock for a boat to Miyajima Island. After crossing the bay, we made a beeline for the mountain...

We’ve spent the last two days in Hiroshima, arriving from Kyoto on the Shinkansen — Japan’s famed bullet train. After dropping our bags...

Yesterday was our grand tour of Kyoto’s most famous sacred sites — the kind of day that proves you can rack up 20,000 steps without even...

Yesterday we shifted our base of operations from the bright bustle of Tokyo to the historic calm of Kyoto. The two-hour ride on Japan’s...