表紙の旅Cover Story
The mountain with five different faces.
Mount Yotei looks exactly like Fuji — same cone, same presence. What it doesn’t have is the ropeway, the souvenir stalls, or the crowd.
Read the cover story →羊蹄山へ蝦夷富士をたずねて
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Nabura Tosasaga: Straw-Seared Bonito, Fifteen Minutes from Flame to Bowl — Kochi
The first time I stopped here, it was December, and I hadn’t planned to stop at all. Route 56 ducks inland through…
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Dogo Onsen and Matsuyama Castle: Why the Crowds Are Still Worth It — Matsuyama, Ehime
It was Golden Week, early May, and the covered arcade of Dogo Haikara Dori had that particular kind of heat that builds…
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Akanko Ainu Kotan: A Living Street Still Writing Its Own Story — Lake Akan, Hokkaido
By six in the evening, the slope through Akanko Ainu Kotan sounds like a village finishing its workday, not starting a show.…
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Nakatsu Gorge: The Seven Lucky Gods a Cabinet Policy Built — Niyodogawa, Kochi
At the trailhead, mist off the Nakatsu River carries the smell of wet stone and cedar, and a shimenawa rope hangs across…
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Sakegawa Village: The Totoro Tree Is Just the Beginning — Yamagata
There’s a cedar in Sakegawa Village that stands about twenty metres tall with a trunk over six metres around, forked low enough…
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Kitanada Station: Where Shimonada’s Silence Still Lives — Ehime
The train pulls away, and for a few seconds the platform at Kitanada Station is loud with its own absence of sound.…
地方別Read by Region
How I choose where to go →四十七都道府県ではなく。Not forty-seven prefectures — just the regions I’ve actually driven, written up properly. New ones get added only after I’ve been.
北海道Hokkaido
Volcano spring water around Niseko and Yōtei, and one street clear across the island at Lake Akan.
東北Tōhoku
Old hot spring towns, mountain-pass teahouses, and gorge roads that only open half the year.
四国Shikoku
Kochi’s clear rivers and Pacific coast, and a first few stops across the mountains in Ehime.
気分で選ぶRead by Mood
行き先は、気分で。Pick a feeling, not a map — one ticket, one way in.
急がない旅の記録
編集後記Editor’s Note
I grew up just outside Tokyo and work in construction. When I travel, I notice the roof pitch, the road’s curve, which villages still have someone living in them.
I’m Naoki. I don’t travel with a checklist — I pick a rough direction and let the road decide the rest. Everything here is a place I’ve actually driven to, written for travelers who’ve already seen Tokyo and want the rest of Japan.
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