Japan

There is a Japan that most visitors never see: ancient pilgrim paths through cedar forest, mountain villages where the inn has six rooms, and hot springs you share with farmers at the end of the day. Our journeys trace the Kumano Kodo and the old Nakasendo post road, linking them by slow trains.

Aiko, who leads our Japan journeys, spent ten years guiding on the Kii Peninsula. She will teach you how to bathe in an onsen without embarrassment, which bento to buy at the station and why the trail markers count down in stone.