Train to Paradise
A few hours on the Shinkansen from Tokyo, and you’ve left behind a city of 14 million people and the bulk of Japan’s big game studios. But what Kyoto lacks in size it makes up for in heart and history. This is the home of Nintendo, neighbor of Capcom’s Osaka, and the capital of Japan for a thousand years. Take a 20-minute stroll from Nintendo’s headquarters, and you’ll be at the foot of the Fushimi Inari shrine, built about 500 years ago.
