Hoshi Onsen Chojukan
A One-Inn Hot Spring Where the Water Rises Through the Bath Floor, Four Buses a Day from Sarugakyo
Hoshi Onsen is a single wooden inn, Chojukan, at the foot of the Mikuni Pass. Its big bath, Hoshi...
Kakegawa Castle
A timber-reconstructed keep and surviving Edo-period palace make Kakegawa a rewarding contrast to...
Kyoto Botanical Garden
Japan's Oldest Public Botanical Garden, Straight Off Kitayama Station
Opened in 1924 and billed as Japan's oldest public botanical garden: 24 hectares by the Kamo Rive...
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 Hagi Sea Mart
A fish market next to Hagi's harbor
A roadside station built as a public market beside Hagi's fishing port and fish auction. Fishmong...
Michi-no-Eki Hitachi-Omiya Kawa Plaza
Western vegetables and river views on the Kuji
A riverside station on Route 118 that opened in 2016 beside the Kuji River. The farm shop draws o...
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 Kii-Nagashima Manbo
Grilled sunfish skewers on the Kumano-nada coast
A Route 42 station named after the ocean sunfish. On weekends and holidays a stall outside grills...
Michi-no-Eki Munakata
Genkai Sea fish near Munakata's ports
Fish from Kanezaki, Oshima and the other nearby ports arrives here every day, and the seafood sec...
Michi-no-Eki Sonogi-no-Sho
Sonogi green tea and whale dishes by Omura Bay
A Route 205 stop one minute from Higashi-Sonogi IC, known for Sonogi green tea and whale. Try the...
Mount Sanjogatake
Sanjogatake and Ominesan-ji: the Shugendo Summit Closed to Women, Open 3 May to 23 September
The 1,719 m main peak of the northern Omine range, where Shugendo traces its beginning, with the ...
Odaigahara
A Rain-Soaked Plateau at 1,600 Meters, Reached by One Bus a Day
A high plateau on the Nara and Mie border with some of the heaviest rainfall in Japan, a 1,695-me...
Rakan-ji Gohyaku Rakan
Five Hundred Stone Arhats in Rock-Cut Caves, Carved for the Silver Miners of Iwami Ginzan
Two caves cut into a rock face across the stream from Rakan-ji in Omori, each holding 250 small s...
Tenkawa Daibenzaiten Shrine
A Benzaiten Shrine for Performers in the Omine Valleys, Where Noh Is Still Staged
A shrine to Benzaiten, goddess of water, eloquence and the performing arts, in the village of Ten...
Tottori Castle Ruins
Stone terraces climb Mount Kyusho above Tottori, preserving the outline of a castle famous for Hi...