JAPAN
Japan
De las fiestas milenarias de Kioto a los campos de flores de Hokkaido: descubra el respeto japonés por los modales, las estaciones y los dioses.
City guides
Empiece por una ciudad
Cada guía de ciudad incluye cronología, historias de personajes, lugares imprescindibles, fiestas y normas locales.
東京 Tokyo
Tokyo
11 lugares
From the fishing village of Edo to a world city: old temples, neon and working-class shitamachi in one city
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京都 Kyoto
Kyoto
9 lugares
An imperial capital for over a thousand years: temples, machiya and festivals are the best textbook on Japan
大阪 Osaka
Osaka
7 lugares
City of merchants and 'Japan's kitchen': eating, shopping and laughing are louder here than anywhere
奈良 Nara
Nara
2 lugares
Japan's first permanent capital: the Great Buddha, sacred deer and the end of the Silk Road
鎌倉 Kamakura
Kamakura
4 lugares
The first samurai capital: the Great Buddha, old temples and the Shōnan coast
広島 Hiroshima
Hiroshima
4 lugares
A city of peace reborn from ruins, and Miyajima out at sea
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福岡 Fukuoka
Fukuoka
4 lugares
A thousand-year-old port facing Asia: yatai, tonkotsu ramen and the god of learning
長崎 Nagasaki
Nagasaki
3 lugares
Japan's only window on the West during national seclusion: Dejima, churches and prayers for peace
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金沢 Kanazawa
Kanazawa
2 lugares
Castle town of the million-koku Kaga domain: a famous garden, teahouse districts and gold leaf
札幌 Sapporo
Sapporo
2 lugares
A northern new town laid out on Kyoto's grid: the Snow Festival, beer and miso ramen
仙台 Sendai
Sendai
2 lugares
The 'City of Trees' built by the One-Eyed Dragon, Date Masamune
函館 Hakodate
Hakodate
1 lugares
One of Japan's first open ports: Western-style slopes, a star fort and a million-dollar night view
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Furano
Lavender fields and the Patchwork Road: a purple dream of northern summer
Otaru Canal
A canal at night lit by gas lamps: a romantic dusk in a northern port town
Tadami Line · First Tadami River Bridge
A railway poem of snow country: the postcard view of a train crossing the Tadami River
Blue Pond, Biei
Cobalt-blue water and dead trees: a dreamscape chosen as a Mac wallpaper
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Oirase Stream
Fourteen kilometres of moss and waterfalls: a poem walked upstream through virgin forest
Nyūtō Onsen
A tour of seven hot springs: milky secret baths under thatched roofs
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Geibikei Gorge
In the boatman's song: a river trip through one of Japan's 100 landscapes
Oze
Wetlands of skunk cabbage: walking the boardwalks into the birthplace of Japanese nature conservation
Ōdōri Park, Sapporo
A 1.5-km 'green carpet' running through the city centre, the grand stage of Sapporo's festivals all year round. Laid out in 1871 as a firebreak,…
Ōmagari National Fireworks Competition
29 de agosto de 2026
First among Japan's three great fireworks competitions, where the country's top fireworks makers compete side by side — with Japan's only 'dayti…
Aomori Nebuta Matsuri
2–7 de agosto de 2026
Eastern Japan's greatest night festival: giant warrior lanterns about 5 m tall and 9 m wide parade through the city centre to cries of 'Rassērā!…
Akita Kantō Matsuri
3–6 de agosto de 2026
A balancing feat at one of Tōhoku's three great festivals: 'kantō' poles about 12 m long, weighing 50 kg and hung with 46 lanterns, are balanced…
Sendai Tanabata Matsuri
6–8 de agosto de 2026
Japan's largest Tanabata festival: giant washi Tanabata decorations hang in the arcaded shopping streets stretching for kilometres from Sendai S…
Goshogawara Tachineputa
4–8 de agosto de 2026
The 'tallest' of Aomori's three great Nebuta festivals: giant three-dimensional lanterns about 23 m tall and weighing about 19 tonnes (about sev…
Zuihōden
The mausoleum of Date Masamune, the 'One-Eyed Dragon': colourful Momoyama-style buildings deep in a cedar forest.
Goryōkaku, Hakodate
A Western-style star fort: stage of the last battle of the Boshin War, filled with cherry blossom in spring.