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By Joshua and Miana — Shizen Photo, Sapporo The single most common question we get, by a landslide, is what should we wear? It's a good question. Wardrobe is the difference between the photos you print, frame, and send to your parents, and the photos you scroll past and quietly wish had turned out differently. Two people can have identical light, location, and posing — and one will end up with images that feel timeless while the other's photos feel like they were taken at a s

Most travelers planning a Japanese autumn trip are looking at Kyoto. They're looking at the wrong island. Hokkaido's autumn arrives roughly three to four weeks earlier than the rest of Japan, peaks before most travelers have even thought about booking a flight, and offers a completely different color palette than Honshu's maple-dominated displays. Where Kyoto burns red, Hokkaido glows in gold and amber — birch, larch, ginkgo, and Ezo spruce alongside the maples, layered acros