About NORD
Travel slowly.
NORD creates considered journeys for people who want to experience a place rather than simply visit it.
Destinations
Places worth going to
Four regions we return to every season, planned end to end by people who have walked them.
Featured journey
The Slow Journey
- Duration
- 12 days
- Country
- Japan
- Pace
- Unhurried
- Best season
- Spring, autumn
Twelve days across Japan, travelled mostly by rail and on foot. You arrive in Tokyo, follow the old Nakasendo road through the Kiso Valley, stay long enough in Kyoto to find its quieter corners, and end among the art islands of the Seto Inland Sea.
- Days 1–3 Tokyo Arrive, adjust, walk the backstreets of Yanaka.
- Days 4–6 Kiso Valley The post-town trail from Magome to Tsumago.
- Days 7–9 Kyoto Temple gardens at opening time, a ryokan by the river.
- Days 10–12 Naoshima Museums set into the landscape, and the ferry home.
Experiences
How do you want to travel?
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Slow travel
Take the long way.
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Wild escapes
Go beyond the obvious.
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Cultural journeys
Stay curious.
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Design & architecture
See places differently.
Journal
Notes from the road
The art of going nowhere
On the days in a journey when nothing is planned, and why they are often the ones you remember.
The kind of trip you remember long after you come home.
