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The Craze for Japan

In a glass cabinet inside a magnificent white room in the centre of London there is a book. It was published over a hundred years ago, to ...
Nikko

The wide avenue slopes gently uphill towards the shrine of Toshogu. It is dimly lit and in places shrouded in complete darkne...
Tokyo's Roppongi District

A lone white-haired Japanese man in a shiny grey suit reels across the station concourse, somehow contriving to stay uprigh...
No Surrender

The cockpit of the plane, a relic from the 1930s, is open. I'm in the front seat, with the pilot sitting behind me. To the east and ...
Lockdown

This is my sixth day of lockdown. In some ways, I am reminded of being on a long-haul flight. There's a similar sense of u...
13 Travel Tips For Visitors to Japan

1. Skip Tokyo Japan’s capital is gigantic, heaving with people, stressful and ugly. The high points (Meiji-jingu, Hama-rikyu Gar...
Temple of Heaven

I like old travel books very much. I have a copy of Washington Irving's Tales of the Alhambra , which was first published around two...
The Real Mary King's Close, Edinburgh

The room is small, dark and dingy and smells of earth, damp and dust. It’s hardly surprising, when you consider that I had to walk down...
Mount Tambora

It has been said that travel broadens the mind. I had unexpected proof of this today during a visit to the museum in Grantown-on-Spey. ...
Darkness

I'm standing at the end of a line of about a dozen people. They are all strangers to me. We're underground - I don't know ho...

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