3 discoveries
A 1967 outdoor moving walkway hauls you up Mt. Yokote's summit for a sea-of-clouds view before 9am, then a crumpet cafe and Japan's highest bakery.
A hot-spring town below Shiga Kogen where overnight guests unlock nine separate wooden bathhouses with a single key and wander stone lanes in yukata after dark.
A six-story elephant-shaped building from 1881 standing on the Jersey Shore — the oldest surviving roadside animal architecture in America, and a National Historic Landmark.
