ashley rose peters

travel · field-tested japan

japan, from someone who lives here.

these aren't listicle itineraries. every place below is somewhere i've shot, stayed, and eaten my way through. guides get written as the trips happen.

the places

the classic, done right

kyoto

temples without the crowds, the matcha that's actually worth it, and where to stay, from a hotel collab shoot spent walking the city.

get the kyoto guide →
the other japan

okinawa

itoman fish markets, island light, and the south nobody flies past narita to see. shot on a press trip along the coast.

matcha country

nishio

the small aichi city that grows the matcha kyoto gets famous for. tea fields, factories, and quiet streets.

rivers & onsen

minakami · gunma

a riverside kominka that sleeps sixteen, mixed onsen etiquette, and why this is the group-trip prefecture.

the day trip

kamakura

the easiest great day out of tokyo. the big buddha, the coastal line, done in one loop.

new guides drop through the letter first. okinawa and minakami are in the queue.

moving here instead?

if the trip is really a scouting mission, i built a whole site for that.