What is Japan? It is everything new and modern: the Tokyo Sky Tree,634 metres high, amazing cameras and phones, karaoke and manga, trains going past at 300 kilometres an hour. And it is everything ancienttoo: beautiful palaces, high mountains and hot springs, cherry blossom in the spring, quiet gardens with water and trees. Here the pastmeets the future all the time. From sumo wrestlers to robots, Japanhas something amazing for everybody.