Japan’s New Supreme Class Shinkansen is not a separate train. It is a new top-tier accommodation being introduced by Central Japan Railway—JR Central—and West Japan Railway on select 16-car N700S trains operating along the Tokaido and Sanyo Shinkansen between Tokyo and Hakata.

Tofuku-ji Temple, Kyoto is not a place to hurry through. It is a place to walk slowly, stop often, and let the design reveal itself in layers. Water is everywhere, even when it is not present. It is heard in the raked white gravel of the Hojo South Garden. It is remembered in the “Eight Seas.” It moves below Tsuten-kyo Bridge in the maple-filled ravine.

Sitting at almost the highest point in Yamakoshi, TakoMaru Trading belongs to this landscape as a modern bridge, a koi trading and export business bringing Japanese koi to the world