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I thought Matsue Vogel Park in Shimane would be somewhere you look at birds. Not quite. Some birds walk right beside you. Others hop onto your hand. And yes, a toucan with an enormous beak can perch on your arm. My family loves birds—we ...

Yamaguchi Prefecture is bigger than it looks on a map. My wife and I wanted to visit Tsunoshima Bridge, see the red gates of Motonosumi Shrine, stroll through Hagi's old town and—if we could squeeze it in—take a hot spring bath. Too much...

Before I visited Hiroshima Orizuru Tower for the first time, I had one question: is an observation deck really worth ¥2,200? You pay another ¥100 if you want to add your own paper crane to the Orizuru Wall. And, of course, snacks and dri...