Ikuno Ginzan Silver Mine
Walk a Kilometre Into a Silver Mine Worked Until 1973
A silver mine worked from at least 1542 until 1973, now open as a walk-through tunnel of about a ...
Konze Tenma no Mori
Hilltop forest park with Lake Biwa views, beside the Konze roadside station
A green hilltop forest park on the slopes of Konze-yama in Ritto, next to the Michi-no-Eki Konze ...
Taro Kanko Hotel Tsunami Ruins
A tsunami-ruined hotel preserved as disaster heritage in Taro, Miyako
A six-story hotel on the Taro coast of Miyako, gutted to the fourth floor by the 2011 tsunami and...
Tsunami Memorial Museum and Michi-no-Eki Takata Matsubara
Free tsunami-memorial museum and roadside station in Rikuzentakata
A combined roadside station and free memorial museum in the Takata Matsubara Tsunami Reconstructi...
Miracle Lone Pine
The lone pine that survived the 2011 tsunami, kept as a monument
The single pine that survived the 2011 tsunami among Takata Matsubara's roughly 70,000 trees, pre...
Michi-no-Eki Konze no Sato Ritto
Roadside Station and Local Market in the Konze Hills
A roadside station in the Konze hills of Ritto, with a farm shop of local Shiga produce and speci...
Fukui Kodomo Kazokukan
Fukui Kodomo Kazokukan Children's Center
A large indoor play-and-learning center for children at the Umin-pia Ohi seaside complex on the W...
Kyoto Railway Museum
Steam Locomotives in a 1914 Roundhouse, Near Kyoto Station
JR West's railway museum in Umekoji Park, with more than 50 real trains from steam locomotives to...
Kyoto Station
Hiroshi Hara's Station Building, Grand Staircase and Skyway
Hiroshi Hara's 1997 station building: a 171-step staircase lit with LEDs after dark, a corridor 4...
Anraku-ji
Anraku-ji, the Thatched-Gate Temple That Opens Only in Season
A small Pure Land temple behind a thatched gate, a few minutes off the Philosopher's Path, founde...
Yoshiminedera Temple
Yoshiminedera spreads across Kyoto’s western hills, with terraced temple paths, wide city views a...
Miyama no Sato
Miso gelato: Miyama no Sato (Ibaraki, Osaka)
A farm produce market in Ibaraki City, Osaka, where we tried ¥300 Ryuou miso gelato with a carame...
Takao (Kyoto)
The Kiyotaki Valley Below Jingo-ji, Northwest of Kyoto
A river valley in the hills northwest of Kyoto where three temples, Jingo-ji, Saimyo-ji and Kozan...
Jinrui Mina Menrui Tsukemen
Tsukemen from Osaka's Jinrui Mina Menrui
The original shop stopped serving tsukemen, so this is where to get it. The dipping broth arrives...
Menya Sanda
Chicken Paitan Tsukemen South of Saiin
A ten-seat tsukemen shop in Ukyo-ku, open since 2017, serving thick house-made noodles with a den...