Top Highlights

• Tipping is also acceptable at a ryokan, when meals are served in your room. Tip ¥1,000 directly to the server. Note: tips in Japan should be handed over in a small envelope; if you forget to pack some, you have the perfect excuse to shop for some cute stationery in Tokyo.
• Fish markets are dotted around in cities and towns all over the country, the Osaka Central Fish Market being one of the biggest and busiest. (Ch. 9)
• One of the most photographed places in Kyoto, the groves can be accessed from the main street of Arashiyama,
• Pay respects at Hiroshima’s 120,000-square-meter park and Peace Memorial Museum, dedicated to the victims of the 1945 bombing.
• In Kanazawa is Kenroku Garden, one of the three finest in the country.