Every guide about Where to stay for a trip to Japan, in one place.
A mountain monastery town founded in the year 816, where you can sleep in a temple, eat Buddhist vegetarian cooking and walk one of the country's largest cemeteries by lantern light.
Where to base yourself in Tokyo: the best neighborhoods for first-timers, nightlife and families, plus how ryokan, business hotels and capsule pods compare and who each suits.
A tatami room with no bed in it, a bath everyone shares, a dinner of fourteen small dishes and a robe you are expected to wear to it: how a night in a Japanese inn works.