Michael Portillo arrives in the home of Japanese porcelain, Arita, where a railway line runs straight through the town's stunning porcelain Shinto shrine. He also stays in a traditional hotel with paper walls and tatami mats where he enjoys a relaxing soak in a natural thermal bath. Michael ends this leg in Fukuoka, Japan's fasting-growing city, full of young Japanese who flock there for the food culture and entrepreneurial spirit.
