Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum
A Clock Stopped at 11:02 and a Rebuilt Cathedral Wall, for 200 Yen
The city museum on the hill above the hypocenter, covering the bombing of August 9, 1945, the dam...
Negoro-ji
A 1547 Pagoda That Survived Hideyoshi, and You Can Go Inside
Head temple of the Shingi Shingon school in the hills of Iwade, northern Wakayama. Its Daito, fin...
Sefa-utaki
Sefa-utaki: Ryukyu's Holiest Forest, a Slippery Stone Path and a Rock Passage You Now See Only From the Front
The holiest site of the Ryukyu Kingdom: a forest on a limestone headland in Nanjo, where a slippe...
Sukayu Onsen
A 160-Mat Mixed Bath Where the Snow Once Reached 5.66 Meters
A single mountain inn at about 890 m in the Hakkoda range, known for the Hiba Sennin-buro, a pill...
Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum
Prince Asaka's 1933 Art Deco Mansion and Its Lawns, Seven Minutes from Meguro
The 1933 home of Prince Asaka, with main rooms by the French Art Deco designers Henri Rapin and R...
Yahiko Shrine
Bow Twice, Clap Four Times at Echigo's First Shrine Below Mount Yahiko
The first-ranked shrine of the old Echigo province, at the foot of 634 m Mount Yahiko, whose summ...
Yata-dera
A Jizo Temple in the Hills West of Yamato-Koriyama, Under 10,000 Hydrangeas in June
Properly Kongosen-ji, a temple halfway up Yatasan in the Yata hills west of Yamato-Koriyama, know...
Gosho Aoyama Manga Factory
A museum in Hokuei about Detective Conan creator Gosho Aoyama, with displays and interactive exhi...
Hama-rikyu Gardens
A Seawater Pond and a Teahouse Below the Shiodome Towers
A former shogunal villa on Tokyo Bay whose main pond still fills and drains with the tide, the on...
Jiko-in
A Tea Master's Temple Where the Entry Fee Buys a Bowl of Matcha and a View over the Yamato Basin
A small Zen temple in Yamato-Koriyama built in 1663 by the tea master and local lord Katagiri Sek...
Jozankei Onsen
Sapporo's Own Hot Spring Town, an Hour by Bus, With Kappa Statues and a Red Bridge Over the Gorge
Jozankei is inside Sapporo's city limits, in the mountains of Minami-ku, about an hour from Sappo...
Kashihara Jingu
Emperor Jimmu's Shrine Under Mount Unebi, With a Main Hall From the Kyoto Palace
A shrine to Emperor Jimmu, the legendary first emperor, built in 1890 at the foot of Mount Unebi ...
Kinugawa Onsen
A Riverside Hotel Town Two Hours From Asakusa, With a Boat Down the Gorge and a Free Footbath at the Station
A long line of big hotels on both banks of the Kinu River gorge, about two hours from Asakusa on ...
Kudaka Island
Kudaka Island: Ryukyu's 'Island of the Gods', 15 Minutes by Boat
A small, flat island about 8 km around off the south-east coast of Okinawa Island, revered since ...
Kushiro Shitsugen National Park
Japan's Largest Wetland, Seen from the Hosooka Lookout at Sunset
About 22,000 hectares of reed and sedge marsh north of Kushiro, Japan's largest wetland and a nat...