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Today, Tokyo's Kitchen, Tsukiji Outer Market still describes itself as Japan’s “Food Town,” where wholesale and retail shops share the streets with restaurants, and where new culinary trends are “born” in the middle of old routines.

By late morning in Higashiyama, the transformation is already underway. Silk on the Sidewalk: Kyoto’s Kimono Rentals are marked by a row of sandals sat at the entrance of a kimono rental shop like punctuation marks.

This is The National Art Center, Tokyo (NACT), one of Japan’s largest exhibition spaces, and a very different kind of national museum.

Driving into the Origin of Nishikigoi along Niigata Prefectural Road 219

Within Niigata Prefecture’s Chuetsu region, the Hoshitouge Terraced Rice Fields of Tokamachi unfold across steep hillsides like a mosaic art piece. With over 200 paddies carved into the slopes, these terraces are a testament to centuries of agricultural ingenuity and community resilience.

Niigata Prefecture should open your eyes to what exists in Japan beyond Tokyo, only two hours by Shinkansen.

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