Michi-no-Eki Nose Kuri-no-Sato
Chestnuts and local rice in northern Osaka
A farm market and food stop on Route 173 in Nose, at the northern edge of Osaka. Seasonal chestnu...
Michi-no-Eki Utsukushigahara Kogen
Japan's highest roadside station, open only from spring to autumn
At the end of the Venus Line, this station sits at roughly 1,930 m on the Utsukushigahara plateau...
Mount Kaimon
Satsuma Fuji: A Spiral Trail Up a 924 m Cone by the Sea
A near-perfect 924-meter volcanic cone at the southern tip of the Satsuma Peninsula, called Satsu...
Mount Moiwa
A Ropeway and Mini Cable Car to Sapporo's Night View at 531 m
A 531 m forested hill on the south-west edge of Sapporo, reached by a ropeway and then the small ...
Mount Nantai
Through a Shrine Gate at 6:00, Then 1,200 m Straight Up
The 2,486-meter sacred mountain of Futarasan Shrine, climbed only from the shrine's Chugushi on L...
Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
Postwar Japanese Art in a Glass Hall at the Edge of Kiba Park
Tokyo's public museum of contemporary art, opened in 1995 on the north edge of Kiba Park, with ab...
Okukinu Onsen
Four Mountain Inns Past the Meotobuchi Gate, Reached on Foot or by Guest Shuttle
Four inns at the head of the Kinu River inside Nikko National Park: Kaniyu, Hatchonoyu, Nikkozawa...
Okushiri Island
A Sea Urchin Island Rebuilt After the 1993 Tsunami
An island 84 km around, 61 km off Esashi in the Sea of Japan, known for sea urchin, clear water a...
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...
Shukkei-en
A 1620 Daimyo Garden, Rebuilt After 1945 Around the Same Pond
A strolling garden begun in 1620 for the Asano lords of Hiroshima, laid out around a central pond...
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 Big Sight
Tokyo Big Sight: Japan's Largest Convention Centre
The inverted pyramids on Tokyo Bay. Japan's biggest exhibition venue, and the home of Comiket.
Toyota Automobile Museum
About 140 Cars From Around the World, Not Just Toyotas
Toyota's car museum in Nagakute traces motoring from the first petrol cars of the late 19th centu...
Akiyamago
Akiyamago: Thirteen Snowbound Hamlets Up the Nakatsu River, and a Riverbed You Dig Your Own Bath In
Thirteen hamlets strung about 20 km along the Nakatsu River gorge, five in Sakae village (Nagano)...
Chiune Sugihara Memorial Hall
The Yaotsu Museum of the Diplomat Who Wrote 2,139 Visas in 1940
A small cypress-built museum in the Hill of Humanity park in Yaotsu about Chiune Sugihara, the Ja...