Most visitors hit the "golden triangle" of Tokyo, Osaka, and Kyoto on Honshu's east coast. Here's why the regions of Chugoku and Shikoku shouldn't be overlooked, and everything you should see during ...

The garden features six ponds and 13 landscaped hills with Mount Shiun as its dramatic backdrop. Photograph by Akio Miki JP, Shutterstock Sanuki udon. In Kagawa Prefecture, you’ll find hundreds of ...

looking out over Ritsurin’s central pond with Mount Shiun serving as borrowed scenery in the distance. Following the coast southeast from Takamatsu, it’s an hour by train to Tokushima ...

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