3 discoveries
A tiny, perpetually broke seaside railway at the eastern tip of Chiba that famously stays alive by selling rice crackers — a 6.4 km line of vintage carriages, cabbage fields, and cheerful gallows humor.
A tall white lighthouse on the windy cape at Japan's far east, where the mainland catches one of the country's earliest sunrises over the Pacific — climb it for a horizon that curves.
A seaside aquarium on the Boso coast famous for its powerful orca show — killer whales leaping against the backdrop of the open Pacific — plus belugas, dolphins, and a walk-through polar zone.
