The country before the journey.

Two ways in to understand where you are going: the eras that shaped the country, and the cooking that tells its geography, prefecture by prefecture.

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History

Japan does not unfold in a straight line. It is a succession of eras, some of them founding moments, others simply quiet. We tell only those that truly shaped the country you are about to visit.

HEIAN · EDO · MEIJI

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Gastronomy

Japan is not eaten the same way from one end of the archipelago to the other. Each prefecture has its own produce, its own techniques, its own dishes found nowhere else.

TOKYO · KYOTO · OSAKA