Michi-no-Eki Okukawachi Kuromaro-no-Sato
Hillside roadside station with a summer peach-dice soft serve
A large roadside station in the wooded Okukawachi hills of Kawachinagano in southern Osaka, with ...
Michi-no-Eki Minabe Ume Shinkokan
Plum-promotion roadside hall in Japan's top umeboshi town
A roadside station and plum-culture hall in Minabe, Japan's top plum-growing town and home of the...
Adashino Nenbutsu-ji
Eight Thousand Nameless Stones at the End of the Sagano Road
Around 8,000 stone buddhas and pagodas gathered from Adashino, a burial ground since the Heian pe...
Jakko-in
The Nunnery Where the Heike Story Ends
The small Ohara nunnery where Kenreimon-in retired after the Heike were destroyed at Dannoura. Th...
Sanzen-in
Ohara's Moss Garden and Its Small Hidden Jizo
A Tendai monzeki temple in the Ohara valley, an hour north of the city, where moss gardens hide s...
Jingo-ji
Four Hundred Steps Above the Kiyotaki Gorge
A mountain temple of 824 above the Kiyotaki gorge, reached by about 400 stone steps, where visito...
Kozan-ji
A World Heritage Temple in a Cedar Forest, Home of the Frolicking Animals
A UNESCO World Heritage temple in the cedars at Toganoo, revived by the monk Myoe in 1206, known ...
Tokyo Big Sight
Tokyo Big Sight: Japan's Largest Convention Centre
The inverted pyramids on Tokyo Bay. Japan's biggest exhibition venue, and the home of Comiket.