Canada to Japan Travel Guide

For a traveller coming from Canada, Japan is where the familiar and the never-seen sit side by side. Tokyo is crowded the way Toronto never is: the crowd here is quiet, ordered and runs like clockwork.

Most people spend their first days in Tokyo and then take the Shinkansen down to Kyoto — two and a half hours to the city of temples.

One practical thing to settle before you fly: getting online the moment you land. Free Wi-Fi is not as common as you would expect, and the Tokyo metro without a map is nobody's friend.