STORY TRAVEL
What is this place
made of?
4 places, 48 spots, and the story behind each one.
KyotoKyotoA thousand years of a city rebuilt by whoever held powerEach time power changed hands, whoever took over left their own answer in the same basin. In Kyoto, those answers still stand side by side.15 places · 3 days, 2 nights
TokyoTokyoA city made by reshaping the landThis was wetland. People dug it out, filled it in and turned it into a city, and the marks of that work are still the shape of Tokyo today.14 places · 3 days, 2 nights
NaraNaraWhere Japan tried to become a nation-stateHere you can still see the real thing: what remains from the years when Japan was being put together as a country.9 places · 2 days, 1 night
HiroshimaHiroshima & MiyajimaA place where people twice chose to preserveA city that was destroyed, and a shrine built out over the sea so that the island would not be harmed. Both lie on the same bay.10 places · 2 days, 1 night