Top Destinations in Japan

Tokyo

Tokyo, Japan's capital in the Kanto region and the world's largest city, blends neon skyscrapers, world-class food, and ancient temples in one unmissable metropolis.

Kyoto

Kyoto, in Japan's Kansai region, is the nation's cultural soul, with over 1,600 Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines — the essential destination for traditional ryokan stays and autumn foliage.

Osaka

Osaka, Kansai's most energetic food city, is Japan's street food capital, with vibrant nightlife and the friendliest locals you'll meet anywhere in the country.

Sapporo

Sapporo, the modern capital of Hokkaido, is famous for the Snow Festival, world-class skiing at Niseko, and some of Japan's freshest seafood and dairy.

Hiroshima

Hiroshima, in Japan's Chugoku region, is a city reborn from history — now a symbol of peace and resilience, and gateway to the iconic floating torii gate of Miyajima Island.

Nara

Nara, in the Kansai region, was Japan's original capital, where hundreds of freely roaming deer share the park with the country's largest bronze Buddha at Todai-ji Temple.

Hakone

Hakone, in Kanagawa Prefecture's Chubu region, is the closest escape from Tokyo into mountain nature — famous for dramatic Mount Fuji views across Lake Ashi and rejuvenating hot-spring ryokans.

Yokohama

Yokohama, in Kanagawa Prefecture just south of Tokyo, is home to Japan's largest Chinatown, the futuristic Minato Mirai waterfront, and a thriving craft beer scene.

Kamakura

Kamakura, a seaside temple town in Kanagawa Prefecture 50 minutes from Tokyo, draws visitors for the giant bronze Kotoku-in Great Buddha and Zen gardens on an unmissable day trip.

Nikko

Nikko, in Tochigi Prefecture north of Tokyo, is an ornate Edo-period shrine complex set in cedar mountain forests — one of Japan's most visually dramatic UNESCO World Heritage Sites.

Fukuoka

Fukuoka, Kyushu's lively gateway city, is the birthplace of Hakata ramen, where yatai (open-air food stall) culture makes it Japan's most sociable food city.

Mount Fuji

Mount Fuji, straddling Yamanashi and Shizuoka in the Chubu region, is Japan's highest peak and most iconic symbol at 3,776m — climbable July–September, stunning year-round from Hakone and the Fuji Five Lakes.

Kobe

Kobe, in Japan's Kansai region, is a cosmopolitan port city between the sea and Mount Rokko, famous for Kobe beef, the Kitano foreign-settlement district, and one of Japan's three official Chinatowns.

Nagoya

Kanazawa

Kanazawa, on the Sea of Japan coast in the Chubu region, is Japan's best-preserved castle town, pairing Kenroku-en Garden and a historic geisha district with a leading contemporary art museum.