Chubu region · the offbeat side of Yamanashi.
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Japan's wine country, a short trip from Tokyo: an entire hillside of vineyards where you pay by weight to pick and eat 16+ grape varieties straight off the vine, from Kyoho and Delaware to Shine Muscat.
Half a million pink moss-phlox blossoms carpet the ground in waves of color beneath Mt. Fuji each spring — a knockout foreground for Japan's most famous mountain.
