Tobu Zoo
White tigers and a wooden coaster in one Saitama park
A zoo and amusement park rolled into one, about an hour from Tokyo on the Tobu line: around 120 a...
Twenty-Six Martyrs Museum and Monument
The Hill Where 26 Christians Were Crucified in 1597, Five Minutes from Nagasaki Station
The execution ground of the 26 Martyrs of 1597, now a park with a long bronze memorial, a small m...
Uda Matsuyama
A Quiet Old Medicine and Kuzu Town in Uda, with an Herb Garden Planted in 1729
A former castle town in the Ouda part of Uda City that turned into a merchant town for medicines,...
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...
Ehime Children's Castle
A free hilltop play park next to Tobe Zoo
A prefectural children's park on about 35 hectares of wooded hill south of Matsuyama. Entry is fr...
Ikeda Castle Ruins Park
A landscaped hilltop park marks the former stronghold of the Ikeda clan, with a Japanese garden a...
Ikegami Honmon-ji
Where Nichiren Died, and 300,000 People Come on One October Night
Head temple of the Nichiren school on a hill in Ota Ward, built where Nichiren died in 1282. Free...
Kitora Tomb
A Small Asuka Tomb Painted with the Four Guardian Animals and a Star Chart, and a Free Museum Where the Real Murals Go on Show
A two-tier round tomb from the late 7th or early 8th century whose chamber was painted with the f...
Kiyosumi Gardens
Stepping Stones Across a Pond Lined With Rocks Shipped by Mitsubishi
A Meiji-era stroll garden built by the Iwasaki family of Mitsubishi around a large pond with thre...
Lake Kussharo
Dig Your Own Hot Bath on the Beach at Japan's Largest Caldera Lake
Japan's largest caldera lake, about 80 square kilometres, in Akan-Mashu National Park. At Sunayu ...
Matabei-zakura
A Weeping Cherry Said to Be 300 Years Old, on a Stone Wall in Rural Uda, for About Two Weeks a Year
A single weeping cherry in the hamlet of Hongo, Uda, said to be about 300 years old, 13 metres ta...
Michi-no-Eki Daiku-no-Sato
Where Beethoven's Ninth was first played in Japan
A small roadside station in German Village Park, on the site of the Bando prisoner-of-war camp. G...
Michi-no-Eki Fureai Park Kita-no-Sato
Kitakata ramen and a hot bath on the road to Yonezawa
A station on Route 121 just north of Kitakata, where the restaurant makes its ramen with flour fr...
Michi-no-Eki Kamiamakusa Sunpearl
Seafood bowls at the first of the Amakusa bridges
A roadside station on Route 266 on Oyano island, close to Tenmon Bridge, the first of the Amakusa...
Michi-no-Eki Kasaoka Bay Farm
Flower fields on reclaimed Kasaoka Bay
A farm market on the flat reclaimed land of Kasaoka Bay, next to fields planted for each season: ...