Day by Day Japan plans a first trip to Japan the way a friend who lives here would: one day at a time, with the trains and the prices written down.

Each route is a real day or weekend: where to go first, how long the walk or the train takes, what the ticket costs and where to eat on the way. Every price names who published it (the operator, the place itself, or the magazine or guide that printed it) and the date; where nobody printed a price, the route says so instead of guessing. Where a stop closes on set days, the route says what to do instead.

Around the routes sits the week in Japan. Every few hours the site reads the Japanese city and food press and the English-language desks in Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka and Fukuoka, and puts the places they name on one map. Headlines stay in the language they were written in, every story links to its source, and we quote no more than a line.

The routes and notes are written by one editor under a pen name, Sora Nakamura, drafted with AI assistance from checked material and read before they go out. Day by Day Japan is independent: no advertisers, no affiliate links, no bookings.

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京都・五条に“大人の茶寮”が誕生！茶問屋の本質を伝える10席だけのご褒美席

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1945年創業の茶問屋［清水一芳園］のカフェが、東山七条から五条へ移転オープン。［茶寮清水一芳園］（京都府京都市下京区）と店名も新たに、お茶や甘味だけでなく、うつわや空間、接客まで含めた「香りと余白を味わう茶寮」として再構築された。

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