All roads lead to Tokyo. Anyone who has traveled in Japan will have heard of the Tokaido, even if they didn’t know the significance of the word. The eastern sea road ran between the emperor’s court in ...

Reporting from Magome, Japan — For two centuries the Nakasendo Way was a major pedestrian route that connected a string of villages that provided lodging and sustenance for the shoguns, retainers and ...

Tsumago in Nagano was once a post town on the Nakasendō highway, which connected Edo (now Tokyo) and Kyoto through an inland route that ran through the Japanese Alps. Often referred to as Tsumago-juku ...

Japan’s Nakasendo Trail is lined with historic shukuba (post towns). This video walks through Narai Juku and Tsumago Juku, ...

Tsumago is, indisputably, a charming place. Low mountains swing the former post-town’s main street around in a curve of weathered wooden houses, backdropping the scene with the dark green of the firs ...

And Tsumago’s idea for a reverse renovation worked exceptionally well for a while. In the early ‘70s, the place was swamped with visitors. But then, as is often the way with these things in Japan, the ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. We step off the bus at Magome and look in disbelief at the steep cobbled slope winding up the hill in front of us. In ...

All roads lead to Tokyo. Anyone who has traveled in Japan will have heard of the Tokaido, even if they didn’t know the significance of the word. The eastern sea road ran between the emperor’s court in ...