Trendy travel information

Where do you collect information for your trip to Japan?
I'm looking for trendy and hot spots to visit in a year!
If you have your favorite guidebooks, websites, travel blogs, could you share them to me.

Vague line of questioning. Define trendy?

If you are looking for what is hot/trendy, come back in a year. What is hot/trendy (even some sources) might have fizzled and be gone in 12 months.

Hi, @hakata14
My word "trendy" doesn't include the classic attractions such as Mt.Fuji, Tokyo Tower, Kinkakuji Temple in Kyoto.

I want to make a nice itinerary in Japan for about 2 weeks.
For that, I need to know things to do and places to visit for 2018!!
I'm wondering if there are some cool travel blogs or websites
which will help me to plan...

This is a "cool" travel website.... have you looked at this one?

decide what you like and prefer and make a trend for your own!
for example me, i make my personal japan hitou trend. it is new every year and cool also. (well ok, most of them are hot, but...:-) )
mostly i use dedicated japanse groups on facebook to find new ideas for the travels. i mark intersting spots in gmaps over time and if there are enough in an area i start planning a route around them (sometimes including major sights from pages like this)...

?try watching �gCool Japan�h on NHK World?

I'd look at PewDiePie's travel blogs to see where he went in Japan if you are keen on the under 25 market

When I travel around Japan I try to get a general overview of a place first, then I look for specific things I'm interested in.

For example you could do specific searches for contemporary art galleries, vinyl record shops, jazz kissaten (coffee shops), rabbit cafes, salsa dance events, mario kart racing, aquariums, history museums, design shops, manga stores, bird-watching areas, craft-beer bars, sake brewery tours, boat rides - whatever sounds interesting to you. You might run into local blogs or websites that share your interests.

For Tokyo, Where In Tokyo ( whereintokyo.com ) covers a lot of contemporary art, architecture and design-related stuff, and Tokyo Art Beat ( tokyoratbeat.com ) specifically covers museum and gallery shows, although not limited to contemporary art.

Based on questions to this Forum (like how to get there, can I fit it in) everyone is going to: Fushimi Inari and the Bamboo Forest in Kyoto. Many people want to see snow while in Japan, many urbanites want to go fruit picking, Takayama and Shirakawa Go are popular as well. I've also seen quite a few questions on the Kiso Valley and spending time in Osaka.

Based on places consistently recommended on this Forum: Go to Naoshima and Kamikochi.