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Meriken Park
Kobe's Main Waterfront Park
Kobe's main waterfront park with the red Kobe Port Tower, BE KOBE monument, and Kobe Maritime Mus...
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Arima Onsen
One of Japan's Oldest and Most Famous Hot Springs
One of Japan's three oldest hot spring towns, renowned for its iron-rich golden waters and radium...
Kobe Kaientai Monument (The Kobe Moai)
Five Moai-Like Statues Honouring Kobe's Naval Cadets
A row of five moai-like stone statues facing Kobe's harbor in Meriken Park, dedicated to the youn...
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Himeji Castle
Japan's Most Spectacular Castle
Japan's best preserved feudal castle, a UNESCO World Heritage Site known as the White Heron Castl...
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Awaji Hanasajiki
Hillside Flower Park with Panoramic Sea Views
A vast hillside flower park on northern Awaji Island with seasonal displays of canola, lavender, ...
Sumoto Castle Ruins
Hilltop Castle Ruins with Panoramic Views of the Seto Inland Sea
A hilltop castle ruin on Awaji Island with Japan's oldest remaining concrete-built tenshu replica...
Kumihimo KOBE
A private 120-year-old house in Kobe with a sauna in its Japanese garden
A whole 120-year-old Japanese house in Kobe, rented to one group a day, with a private sauna in i...
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 ...
Taisho Roman-kan
Taisho Roman-kan: Sasayama's 1923 Town Hall, Now Shops and a Café
Sasayama's old town hall, a pale wooden building from 1923 across from the castle, now selling lo...
Tamba-Sasayama History Museum
Tamba-Sasayama History Museum: Armour and Swords in an 1891 Courthouse
Sasayama's old courthouse, built in 1891 and used until 1981, now a museum of armour, swords and ...
Sasayama Castle
Sasayama Castle and the Ōshoin: Hours, Tickets and Parking
The stone walls and moats of a castle built in 1609 on Tokugawa Ieyasu's orders, and the Ōshoin, ...
Tamba-Sasayama
Tamba-Sasayama: Castle Town, Samurai Street and Black Soybeans
A castle town in the hills of eastern Hyogo, about an hour from Osaka: castle walls and a rebuilt...
Anma Family Samurai House
Anma Family Samurai House: A Foot Soldier's Thatched Home in Sasayama
A thatched samurai house on Okachimachi, the street where Sasayama's foot soldiers lived, with it...
Aoyama Rekishi-mura
Aoyama Rekishi-mura: The Sasayama Lords' Villa and Storehouses
The villa and storehouses of the Aoyama family, lords of Sasayama from 1748 to the Meiji Restorat...
Taiyo Park
World Heritage Replicas Theme Park
A quirky theme park featuring full-scale replicas of world monuments including a Neuschwanstein-s...