Gojo Shinmachi
Gojo Shinmachi, an Edo-Period Merchant Street on the Old Kishu Road by the Yoshino River
About 750 m of white-plastered merchant houses along the old Kishu Kaido on the north bank of the...
Goshono Site
A Jomon Village With Earth-Roofed Pit Houses, Across a Covered Wooden Bridge in Ichinohe
The site of a Jomon village on a plateau above the Mabechi River in Ichinohe, northern Iwate, liv...
Kashiwajima
Water So Clear the Boats Look Like They Are Hovering, at the Far End of Kochi
A small island, about 4 kilometers around, tied to the Otsuki Peninsula by two bridges. The water...
Kumejima
Kumejima: A Sandbar You Reach Only by Boat, 100 km West of Okinawa
An island of about 7,000 people roughly 100 km west of Okinawa Island, reached by a 30-minute fli...
Manda Pit
A Miike Coal Mine Shaft Tower and Brick Winding House on the Kumamoto-Fukuoka Border
A pit of the Mitsui Miike coal mine with its works still standing: an 18.8 m steel headframe from...
Michi-no-Eki Aito Margaret Station
Farm gelato and flower fields in eastern Shiga
A roadside station on Route 307 that grew out of a farmers' market. Come for the gelato made with...
Michi-no-Eki Nanairo Nanae
Apple sweets in the town where Japan first grew Western apples
A 2018 roadside station on Route 5 just north of Hakodate, about ten minutes by car from Shin-Hak...
Michi-no-Eki Okuhida Onsengo Kamitakara
Wasabi, char and a riverside campground in Okuhida
A small Route 471 station beside the Takahara River, on the way into the Okuhida hot spring villa...
Michi-no-Eki Saijo Nonta-no-Sakagura
Sake from ten Higashihiroshima breweries under one roof
A sake-brewery-style station beside the Route 2 Saijo Bypass, opened in 2022. Its market stocks s...
Michi-no-Eki Shichijo Melon Dome
Melons under melon-shaped roofs in Kikuchi
Three green melon-shaped domes on Route 325 in Kikuchi, filled with local melons, melon sweets an...
Michi-no-Eki Tojo
Regional shopping at the gateway to Tojo Lake
Tojo is a roadside station just outside Hyogo-Tojo IC, with local produce, regional goods and pla...
Michi-no-Eki Tono Kaze-no-Oka
Wind turbines, a valley view and the gateway to Tono
A hilltop station on Route 283 just off the Tono exit of the Kamaishi Expressway, marked by wind ...
Michi-no-Eki Yamba Furusatokan
A footbath beside the new bridges of Yamba Dam
A stop on the Route 145 Yamba bypass at the foot of Fudo Ohashi, one of the bridges built for Yam...
Michi-no-Eki Yonezawa
Yonezawa beef at the edge of the expressway
A large station opened in 2018 about 200 meters from Yonezawa-Chuo IC on the Tohoku-Chuo Expressw...
Mikurajima
Mikurajima: The Izu Island Where the Ferry Often Cannot Dock and You Need a Booked Bed to Land
A round, cliff-walled island about 200 km south of Tokyo with one small village, old-growth fores...