I find an interesting rural/urban divide in non-fiction portrayals of Japan. I only knew/spent time in rural Japan, which in my own "essentializing" imagination

I find an interesting rural/urban divide in non-fiction portrayals of Japan. I only knew/spent time in rural Japan, which in my own "essentializing" imagination is indeed the Japan of Miyazaki and some of the great 20th century novelists. The romance of bumping along a mountain road in a little truck! But the Japan of these "high-brow" magazines is always extremely urban.