A dramatically pitted shoreline, exquisite seafood gathered from the sea by women freedivers, a lodestone of Shinto worship deep in a sacred wood — Japan’s Ise-Shima region is blessed with more than ...

I was getting tired of lobster. My husband, Ralph, and I had been in Mie Prefecture’s Ise-Shima Peninsula—otherwise known as Japanese Lobster Country—for three nights already and had eaten every ...