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Tokyo
Tokyo oldest temple, fronted by the lantern-lit Nakamise shopping street.
Kyoto
A refined Zen retreat with a moss garden and a cone of raked silver sand.
Japan's most famous Zen rock garden — fifteen stones in raked gravel.
Arashiyama's top temple, with a borrowed-scenery pond garden by the mountains.
A grand Zen complex with a towering gate and a photogenic brick aqueduct.
A 120-metre hall lined with 1,001 golden statues of Kannon.
Home to Japan's tallest wooden pagoda, five storeys against the Kyoto sky.
Gion's guardian shrine, gateway to Maruyama Park's cherry blossoms.
A bright vermilion shrine fronted by a giant torii gate.
Kyoto's greatest autumn temple — a valley of maples viewed from a wooden bridge.
A tranquil garden temple with giant camphor trees and evening illuminations.
The world's largest fish market, successor to Tsukiji, where pre-dawn tuna auctions and dawn sushi breakfasts draw food lovers to Tokyo Bay.
A raucous open-air market of over 250 stalls under the Yamanote tracks near Ueno, famous for cheap seafood, fruit and street snacks.
A warren of six tiny alleys in Shinjuku packed with over 200 minuscule, characterful bars, each seating just a handful of drinkers.
Tokyo's 'Kitchen Town', an 800-metre street of shops selling everything for the restaurant trade, from hand-forged knives to plastic display food.
A smoky, lantern-lit warren of tiny yakitori and izakaya stalls beside Shinjuku Station, a surviving slice of postwar Showa-era Tokyo.
A pocket-sized retro drinking alley of around 40 tiny bars beside Shibuya Station, a nostalgic hideaway amid the neon.
A street of some 70 restaurants on Tsukishima island devoted to monjayaki, Tokyo's gooey, cook-it-yourself griddle dish.
A nostalgic old-Tokyo shopping street in the Yanaka district, lined with some 60 shops and stalls selling street food, sweets and crafts.
A buzzing, retro indoor food alley in Ebisu, packed with around 20 tiny stalls serving everything from grilled seafood to oden under one roof.
A dense maze of tiny shops, bars and eateries by Kichijoji Station, named for how its packed little stalls resemble the holes of a harmonica.
Osaka
Osaka's 190-year-old covered food market - 'the kitchen of Osaka' - packed with fresh seafood, wagyu skewers and street snacks.
The birthplace of Osaka kushikatsu - crisp deep-fried skewers, one dip of sauce, in the retro Shinsekai district.
The 'back-Namba' warren of izakaya and standing bars where Osakans drink and eat, away from the tourist neon.
