Okinawa is the portal between Japan and the tropics and comprises of hundreds of the Ryukyu Islands. Naha City is its capital and it achieved world-wide fame when they were found to be the archipelago with the longest life expectancy in the world.

Tohoku is a region of wild countryside, rustic hot spring towns and deep winters spent under a thick blanket of snow, brightened by some of the country’s most impressive festivals. Despite its charms, Tohoku remains one of the least-visited of Japan’s eight regions, and is thus one of the best places in the country to venture off the beaten track.