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Three Japanese Road Trips Through a Craft Lens
Some of Japan’s most fascinating finds lie beyond its best-known cities, in rural regions where centuries-old craft traditions are still very much intact. Photographer-author and longtime resident Ben Richards maps three road trips through Ishikawa, Kyushu, and the Kyoto countryside, following the artisans, materials, and landscapes that define each region.
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Learning to Love Osaka
After more than a dozen years of traveling around Japan, writer Adam H. Graham had never quite warmed to Osaka: too loud, too crowded, too chaotic for a committed introvert. On a recent return, he finally cracked the code to Japan’s famously brash second city.
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Dispatch from the Basque Coast
A last-minute trip to Biarritz—and a completely sold-out hotel scene—sent Yolanda exploring farther afield along the Basque Coast. She discovered just how close everything is: surf towns, seaside villages, and postcard-perfect countryside are often only 10 minutes apart. Here, her newly expanded list of where to stay, eat, drink, and shop from Biarritz to St.…
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Dispatch From Cap Ferret
This narrow, pine-forested peninsula an hour from Bordeaux, where oyster shacks, sand dunes and charming villages sit between the Atlantic and Arcachon Bay, is a caught-in-time vacationland: barefoot and rustic, but incredibly chic.
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Postcard from… Mackinac Island, Michigan
Christine Chitnis returns with her kids to Mackinac Island, the cinematically nostalgic Michigan summer escape she grew up visiting. She found the four-square-mile pretty unchanged, with no cars but lots of bikes and horse-drawn carriages, grand Victorian cottages and State Park hiking trails.
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Postcard from… Southeastern Sicily
Jewelry designer Lizzie Fortunato headed to the golden Baroque towns of Noto and Modica with her twin sister and their six-year-olds. Instead of summer overcrowding, they found low-key beach clubs that still felt undiscovered by Americans.
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Postcard from… The Turkish Riviera
Along Türkiye’s Turquoise Coast, Michelle Faucheux finds a stretch of the Mediterranean that somehow still feels remarkably raw and uncrowded, where history isn’t kept behind ropes.
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Postcard from… Hydra
Jewelry designer Jennifer Alfano fell hard for Hydra, with long lunches overlooking the sea measured out in mineral-y white wine, swims off rocky beaches, characterful little hotels, a lively art scene, excellent shopping, and plenty of reasons to start planning a return.
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Postcard from… Guéthary
Vanessa Boz first discovered Guéthary at 17 and has come back ever since to this secluded Basque surf town near Biarritz, where having a routine of fewer choices is part of the appeal.