Guides
Editorial travel guides built from our route-planning pipeline and paired with editable Instaboard trip plans.
Three days in Nagoya gets you two very different castles, one invisible sword, and an industrial museum that slaps. Here is how to do it without wasting time on the wrong things.
Nagasaki is where Japan met the outside world for two centuries, then spent another two trying to forget the worst of it. Three days lets you walk the stone lanes, see the harbor from above, and sit with history.
Hakone is the Tokyo escape where volcanoes, hot springs, and shrine gates deliver exactly what the photos promise. Three days gives you the full loop without rushing.
Fukuoka in autumn gives you shrine rituals, covered-street snacking, lake walks, and coastal sunsets, all without the tourist density of Japan's bigger cities. Three days is enough if you plan it right.
Three days in Matsuyama get you a 3,000-year-old bathhouse, one of Japan's last original castles, and a temple hidden inside a cave. Here is how to time it right.
Four days in Tokyo can cover temples, street markets, skyline views, and digital oddities without burning you out, as long as you plan around the crowds instead of fighting them.
A three-day Sapporo winter trip built on seafood breakfasts, underground passages, snowy park walks, brick architecture, local beer, and a night view that reveals the city's real scale.
Beijing in winter rewards smart timing: big outdoor sights first, warmer streets and indoor resets second. This four-day itinerary keeps you ahead of the crowds and the cold.
A candid three-day Kyoto spring itinerary covering Kiyomizu-dera, Arashiyama's bamboo, Fushimi Inari's vermilion gates, and a tea-scented finish in Uji, with honest takes on which spots earn your time.
Kanazawa is what happens when a feudal clan spends 250 years building gardens instead of fighting wars, and almost none of it got destroyed. Three days here will show you why this might be Japan's best-kept open secret.
Hiroshima makes you stop talking and start thinking. Three days take you from the weight of 1945 through autumn color to a floating torii gate on Miyajima.
Three days around the Fuji lakes gives you enough swings at bat to catch Japan's most photographed mountain, which only shows its face about 80 days a year.
Three days in Kumamoto gets you samurai history, an active volcano that makes its own rules, a gorge out of mythology, and a hot springs town with zero convenience stores.
Sendai is the city a one-eyed warlord built, and three days here cover castle ruins, 260 pine-covered islands, and a thousand-step mountain temple with cliff-side views.
San Luis Obispo shifts from quiet mission history to weird downtown charm to wide-open Central Coast bluffs in three days that never repeat a mood.
Yokohama is the port city where old docks, skyline walks, garden calm, and serious noodle culture coexist. Three days give you bay views, ship history, Chinatown chaos, and the good kind of weird.
Osaka is the city where breakfast starts under market roofs and ends under neon by a canal. Three days of covered arcades, skyline views, and the best street food in Japan.
Four days in Naha give you Ryukyu castles, whale sharks, pottery alleys, and sacred forests, plus the beaches and street food that make Okinawa feel different from mainland Japan.