Yamato Museum (Kure Maritime Museum)
A 26-Meter Battleship Model, Back on Show in Kure Since April 2026
Kure's naval and shipbuilding history museum, built around a 26.3-meter, one-tenth scale model of...
Hozan-ji
Ikoma Shoten, a Temple Under a Cliff Reached by Japan's Oldest Cable Car
A working temple of prayer halfway up Mount Ikoma, where people come to ask Kangiten, known local...
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...
Michi-no-Eki Kyotamba Ajimu-no-Sato
Expressway roadside station in Kyoto's black-soybean country
A large roadside station in the hills of Kyotamba on the Kyoto Jukan Expressway, in the Tamba dis...
Edo Wonderland Nikko Edomura
Edo-Period Culture Theme Park near Kinugawa Onsen
A living-history theme park near Nikko that recreates a town of the Edo period, where costumed re...
Michi-no-Eki Shodoshima Olive Park
Olive groves and a white windmill above the Seto Inland Sea
A free hillside park on Route 436 with olive groves, a herb garden and a Greek-style windmill loo...
Nasu Highland Park
Highland Amusement Park in the Nasu Resort Area
The largest amusement park in the Tochigi highlands, set among the forests of the Nasu resort are...
Nezu Museum
Korin's Irises Screen Each Spring and a Hillside Garden Behind Omotesando
A museum of Japanese and East Asian art built on railway magnate Nezu Kaichiro's estate, with a 2...
Fujiwara Palace Site
The Field Where Nara Says Japan's First Grid-Planned Capital Stood, Now Planted with Rapeseed, Lotus and Cosmos
The site of the palace at the centre of Fujiwara-kyo, Japan's capital from 694 to 710, which Nara...
Yasukuni Shrine
Tokyo's Official Cherry Tree and a 25-Meter Torii at Kudanshita
A large Shinto shrine at the top of Kudan-zaka, founded in 1869, that enshrines those who died fo...
Cape Kamui
A Ridge Path Into Shakotan Blue Water, Past a Gate Once Closed to Women
A narrow headland at the north-west tip of the Shakotan Peninsula where the 770 m Charenka path r...
Hokkaido Shrine
Sapporo's Forest Shrine, Where the Gates Open at Midnight on New Year
Sapporo's main shrine, in the forest of Maruyama Park, founded in 1869 as the guardian of Hokkaid...
Karuizawa Toy Kingdom
A toy-themed park for small children in the highlands below Mount Asama
A seasonal park for young families in the Tsumagoi highlands, despite the Karuizawa name. Indoor ...
Manabeshima
A Film-Set Fishing Village and Its Cats, 45 Minutes from Kasaoka
A small island in the Kasaoka Islands whose harbor village still looks like an old fishing settle...
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, ...