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...
Michi-no-Eki Wave Park Namerikawa
A firefly squid museum on Toyama Bay
A seafront station in Namerikawa built around the Hotaruika Museum, which explains the firefly sq...
Miyake-jima
Walk Past a School Buried by Lava on a Still-Active Volcano Island
A round volcanic island about 180 km off Honshu whose 2000 eruption and the gas that followed emp...
Mount Katsuragi
A Ropeway Up to the Azalea Slopes of Mount Katsuragi, Above Gose
A 959 m mountain on the Nara-Osaka border above Gose, with a wide grassy summit plateau that turn...
Mount Kumotori
Tokyo's Highest Point at 2,017 m, Best Done with a Night in a Hut
At 2,017 m on the border with Saitama and Yamanashi, Kumotori is the highest point in Tokyo and o...
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...
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...
Yuzuki Castle Ruins
Inside Dogo Park, Yuzuki preserves the moats and earthworks of the Kono family’s medieval strongh...
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)...
Fudarakusan-ji
The Nachi Beach Temple Where Monks Set Sail, Sealed In, for Kannon's Paradise
A small Tendai temple by Nachi beach, a branch of Seiganto-ji, where monks once set out in small ...
Jison-in
Kukai's Mother's Temple at the Foot of Koyasan, Where the Choishi-michi Begins
A small Shingon temple by the Kinokawa river where, by tradition, Kukai's mother lived out her li...
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 ...