Japan has been a country that I have always liked. A family favourite, I used to visit the land of the rising sun at least once a year. Instead of visiting as many countries as possible, I much prefer visiting a country extensively before moving on: only then one can really experience the true beauty of the land.
| Before those thousands of steps on the up to Yamadera |
As a result though, I have been to quite a lot of places in Japan, in fact perhaps more so than most Japanese people. Looking through the 'Places I have been to' map I have created on Google Map, (Facebook offers a similar app, but it just wasn't precise enough for me), the pins on Japanese territory actually disguised most of the country from the eye, yet still formed the outline of the country...
When I was struggling to think of things to write about in this exam season, I thought to myself, why not create a list of places that I like in Japan? So here we have it, the top ten off the beaten track destinations for me in Japan, roughly from the North to the South of the Country: