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Everyone I spoke to before my Japan trip said the same thing. “You’ll love Kyoto.” Every single person. And I’ll be honest – by the time the fifth or sixth person said it, I’d started to temper my expectations a little. That’s usually how it goes, right? The more something …

The first time I pulled up the Tokyo metro map on my phone, I genuinely thought someone was pranking me. Fourteen lines. Five different operators. Colour coding that would make a Pantone chart look minimal. I zoomed in. Then zoomed out. Took a screenshot to study later. Then gave up …