Kencho-ji
Japan's First Zen Training Monastery
The first Zen training monastery in Japan, founded in 1253, and ranked first among Kamakura's Fiv...
Meigetsuin
The Hydrangea Temple of Kamakura
'Hydrangea Temple.' 2,500 blue bushes bloom in June, and the deep blue is called 'Meigetsuin Blue...
Sankeien Garden
A Grand Japanese Garden with Historic Treasures
A spacious traditional Japanese garden built by silk merchant Hara Sankei, featuring 17 historic ...
Hase-dera
Hase-dera Temple
A hillside temple in Kamakura celebrated for its towering gilded Kannon statue, lush hydrangea ga...
Tsurugaoka Hachimangu
Tsurugaoka Hachimangu Shrine
Kamakura's most important Shinto shrine, situated at the end of a grand tree-lined approach stret...
Yokohama Cosmoworld
Waterfront Amusement Park and the Cosmo Clock 21 Ferris Wheel
A compact urban amusement park in Minato Mirai built around the Cosmo Clock 21, a giant clock-fac...
Minato Mirai
Yokohama's modern waterfront district with famous landmarks, shopping, and seaside promenades.
Hakone Shrine
The Red Torii Standing in Lake Ashi, and the Queue to Photograph It
A shrine in the cedar forest on the shore of Lake Ashi, moved to this site in 757, with the red P...
Pola Museum of Art
Monet and Renoir in a Museum Sunk into a Hakone Beech Forest
A museum in the Sengokuhara woods, opened in 2002, built mostly underground to keep it 8 meters h...
Shichirigahama
Surf, Enoshima and Mt. Fuji From the Enoden, With a Famous Crossing
A 2.9-kilometer surf beach between Inamuragasaki and Koshigoe, with Enoshima and, on clear days, ...
Hakone Open-Air Museum
Henry Moore on the Lawn, Picasso Indoors and a 28-Meter Footbath
Japan's first open-air art museum, opened in 1969: about 120 sculptures spread over 70,000 square...
Soji-ji
A 164-Meter Corridor Wiped by Hand, Five Minutes from Tsurumi
One of the two head temples of Soto Zen, founded in 1321 on the Noto Peninsula and moved to Tsuru...
Yokohama Hakkeijima Sea Paradise
Four aquariums and a coaster that runs out over the sea
A man-made island in southern Yokohama with four aquariums and a seaside ride area. Walking onto ...
Mount Oyama
Edo's Pilgrim Peak: A Cable Car to Afuri Shrine, Then 90 Minutes Up
A 1,252-meter peak in the Tanzawa range that drew some 200,000 pilgrims a year in the Edo period....
Battleship Mikasa
Togo's 1905 Flagship, Set in Concrete at the Edge of Yokosuka
The British-built battleship that carried Admiral Togo Heihachiro at the Battle of Tsushima in 19...