&Premium August 2026｜Travel with Books

&Premium August 2026: Travel with Books

&Premium August 2026 No.152 is a lifestyle travel issue dedicated to traveling with books. This volume explores the connection between reading and travel, introducing beautiful towns across Japan where stories, landscapes, bookshops, inns, cafés, art, architecture, and local culture come together.

This is not a standard Japan travel guide. It is a travel feature for readers who love books and quiet journeys. Through poetry, literature, folk stories, craft, architecture, art, and local bookshops, the issue shows how one book can change the way we see a place. It is especially suitable for readers interested in slow travel, solo travel, Japanese bookstores, literary walks, local culture, thoughtful stays, and book-inspired journeys.

Highlights of This Issue

1. Beautiful Japanese Towns to Visit with Books
This issue uses books as an entrance into travel, introducing towns where stories and real landscapes gently overlap. When you read a book connected to a place and then walk through that town, travel becomes more than sightseeing. A sentence on a page can change the way a street, a view, or a quiet corner feels. This issue presents travel as a richer experience shaped by both reading and movement.

2. Yakushima, Kagoshima: A Journey Through a Poet’s Words
The issue visits Yakushima in Kagoshima, following the words and traces of a poet who once lived on the island. Yakushima is not only a destination known for forests and natural beauty. Through literature, it becomes a place where nature, time, and inner reflection meet. This section is especially appealing for readers who love poetry, nature, remote islands, and quiet travel.

3. Chino to Tateshina, Nagano: A Journey Surrounded by 30,000 Books
This issue introduces a reading-focused journey through Chino and Tateshina in Nagano, including a hot spring inn where travelers can immerse themselves in a large collection of books and a calm atmosphere. When accommodation becomes more than a place to sleep, surrounded by books, mountain scenery, and unhurried time, travel turns into a deeper form of rest. This route is ideal for readers who enjoy hot spring inns, book lounges, mountain travel, and slow vacations.

4. Tono to Hanamaki, Iwate: Entering the World of Stories
The issue also travels through Tono and Hanamaki in Iwate, where folk stories, literature, and local memory are closely connected. Through secondhand bookshops, story-related places, and regional landscapes, readers can see how books give a town greater depth. This section is especially suitable for those interested in folklore, literature, local history, and travel in northern Japan.

5. Kanazawa and Tottori: Architecture, Art, and Folk Craft Journeys
Beyond poetry and literature, the issue also explores travel through architecture, art, and folk craft. In Kanazawa, Ishikawa, the focus is on architecture, museums, art, green walking paths, and urban culture. In Tottori, the feature looks at folk craft as a culture that lives naturally within everyday life. These sections are ideal for readers who love Japanese craft, objects, architecture, art museums, and local lifestyle aesthetics.

6. Bookshops as Travel Destinations
This issue introduces bookshops across Japan that are worth making into travel destinations, as well as tote bags discovered in local bookstores. For book lovers, a bookshop is not only a place to buy books. It can reflect the character of a city, the taste of local readers, and the cultural atmosphere of a neighborhood. Visiting local bookshops gives travel a quieter and more personal point of entry.

7. Solo Overnight Trips and 47 Travel Books
The issue also includes special one-night, two-day solo travel plans recommended by seven book-loving travelers. It further presents a guide to good bookstores across Japan’s 47 prefectures, along with 47 books that enrich the experience of walking through different towns. Whether you are planning your next Japan trip or simply want to travel first through reading, this issue offers thoughtful inspiration.

Magazine Name: &Premium August 2026 No.152
Main Feature: Travel with Books
Publisher: Magazine House
Release Date: June 19, 2026
Pages: Approximately 145 pages for the digital edition
Language: Japanese