Adam H. Graham is a freelance food and travel journalist and regular contributor to the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Condé Nast Traveler, and several other international publications. Born in the US, Adam now lives in Switzerland where he spends a lot of time on trains, birdwatching in the alps, and exploring restaurants and food markets in neighboring Italy and France. He typically spends about two months a year in Asia, often in Japan, but is always looking for ways to continue traveling and lower his carbon footprint.
Tips & News
Here’s your summer reading list.
Culture
Whether it’s when the irises open, the tomatoes are hung, the manatees migrate or the lobsters lose their shells — to everything there is a season. Japan might be the most poetic, but Adam H. Graham finds microseasons enrich your travels everywhere.
Culture
Could it get any more Japanese than driving around to a bunch of delicious noodle joints with a big bowl of fake noodles on your roof?
Shop
You could say the City of Blades was forged in the fire. Follow us to Gifu Prefecture to handcraft the home cook’s deadliest weapon.
Hotels & Resorts
These days, more travelers are gazing at the skies than taking to them in airplanes. Dark Sky Parks, telescope meetups and bioluminescent zones herald the dawn of Asia’s astrotourism.
Food & Drink
Squeezed into whisky or steeped in a bath— Japanese citrus works its magic on us.
Culture
Off the west coast of Japan, we visit Sado Island seeking an immersion in the nation’s golden age, and discovers a shingle-roofed, pine-ridged, Midcentury time capsule.
Hotels & Resorts
From the owners of Setouchi Seaplanes and luxury cruise ship Guntû, this superbly located resort overlooking the Seto Sea regales its guests with the wonders of the great outdoors.
Hotels & Resorts
Marriott hits a millennial home run with this new 155-room Moxy property, which opened last year. The hotel occupies a former 11-story undergarment warehouse in Osaka’s shabby-chic Honmachi district, minutes away from the station and chock-a-block with izakaya and kushikatsu joints.
Hotels & Resorts
Opened last autumn, this elegant 32-room newcomer overlooks Lake Kawaguchi in Yamanashi Prefecture, just two hours from Tokyo.
Hotels & Resorts
Low-budget, high-design, next-gen hotels have begun to sweep Asia, an on-trend fit for digital nomads, flashpackers and aesthetes alike.
Hotels & Resorts
From a former royal guesthouse to a room with sweeping Mount Fuji views, these intimate, extravagant and picturesque resorts are just the spots to celebrate those once-in-a-lifetime moments.
Culture
As Fiji lands new resorts, international flights and cruises, the South Pacific paradise is trying to preserve its own Eden.