Only a few hours’ drive from most bases in the Kanto Plain, Sawara in Chiba Prefecture is an attractive town, known as “Koedo,” or little Edo, that preserves the original townhouses and streets from...
I checked my Seikosha pocket watch, drawing it as close as the watch chain holding it to my waist coat would allow. It wasn’t unexpected, but she was late.
Hakodate is wedged on the southernmost tip of the northern island of Hokkaido and has a distinctly cosmopolitan feel due to its relatively long history of interaction with the West.