Chugoku

Osaka’s tourist infrastructure is so well-developed that it can feel like the city is trying to keep you inside it — there’s always another food street, another neighborhood, another castle to see (its own castle being the obvious one). But the Kansai region around Osaka is one of the most historically layered parts of Japan, and within two or three hours in any direction lie castle towns that saw more history than most countries manage in a millennium. ...