Some destinations lose their magic when rushed. Kiso Valley, Portugal’s Vicentina Coast, Jeju Island, Dordogne-Périgord, the ...

Hannah Walhout is a senior editor at Travel + Leisure, where she edits the Discoveries section of the print magazine and develops longer stories focusing on food, wine, and spirits. She has previously ...

If you're looking for a fine piece of wood, you'd be hard put to improve on a slab of hinoki (Hinoki cypress, Chamaecyparis obtusa) from the Kiso Valley straddling Nagano and Gifu prefectures. The ...

Japan has always been a hot spot, come winter, spring or summer. Tours to the country, though aplenty, mostly cover the popular tourist spots. But the best way to learn about Japan, its food, people ...

A walking tour of the Kiso Valley offers glimpses of the golden age of Japan’s great printmakers. In the 1830s, at the tail ...