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Attraction
Osaka

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 ...

Kawachinagano, Osaka, Japan
Attraction
Wakayama

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...

Minabe, Wakayama, Japan
Temple
Kyoto

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...

Kyoto, Japan
Temple
Kyoto

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...

Kyoto, Japan
Temple
Kyoto

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...

Kyoto, Japan
Temple
Kyoto

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...

Kyoto, Japan
Temple
Kyoto

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 ...

Kyoto, Japan
Landmark
Tokyo

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.

Koto, Tokyo, Japan