OKAYAMA--Visitors to the famed Korakuen garden here can get a taste of history by enjoying foods that the lords of the Ikeda clan would have savored during the Edo Period (1603-1867). A committee, ...

Four hundred years ago, Edo was little more than a fishing village in the large domain of Tokugawa Ieyasu. But then, in 1603, the new shogun made this quiet spot his power base, and over the next two ...

Wedged between Osaka and Hiroshima on the Tokaido-Sanyo Shinkansen line is the oft-forgotten prefecture of Okayama. Most two-week Japan travel itineraries do not allow any time at all to stop in the ...