Family

Hokkaido is the one part of Japan where you can book snow months ahead and get it. What that buys you, what it costs a five-year-old, and how to shoot children in a white field without turning everyone grey.

Nara is the easiest family session in Japan and the one that needs the clearest warnings. The cracker rule, the walking distances nobody tells you, and the Kyoto spots that survive a four-year-old.

A family shoot in Tokyo is a logistics problem, not a lighting one. Here is where to shoot with small children, which hour to book, and why jet lag is on your side for about a week.