Edo-Tokyo Museum
A Life-Size Nihonbashi Bridge Inside a Museum on Four Legs, Reopened in 2026
Tokyo's history museum next to the Ryogoku sumo hall, back open since March 31, 2026 after a reno...
Azabudai Hills
Lawns, a Food Market and Galleries Under the 330-Meter Mori JP Tower
Mori Building's 8.1-hectare district between Kamiyacho and Roppongi-itchome, opened in November 2...
Honno-ji
The Temple Where Nobunaga Died, Rebuilt Ten Years Later Across Town
The Nichiren-school temple linked to Oda Nobunaga's death in 1582, rebuilt on Teramachi-dori in 1...
Michi-no-Eki Yoka Tajimagura
Roadside Station in the Tajima Hills
A roadside station on Route 9 in Yoka, Yabu, in the Tajima region of northern Hyogo, best known f...
Hakone Yumoto Onsen
Hakone's Gateway Onsen Town, Where the Romancecar Stops and Two Big Day Bathhouses Wait
Hakone Yumoto is the end of the line for the Odakyu Romancecar from Shinjuku, about 80 minutes ou...
Tokara Islands
Tokara Islands: Seven Inhabited Islands on One Village Ferry, Twice a Week
A chain of islands between Yakushima and Amami-Oshima that make up Toshima village, with people l...
Tower of the Sun
Inside Taro Okamoto's Tower: 145 Steps Up a 41-Meter Tree of Life
Taro Okamoto's 70-meter tower from Expo '70, whose hollow interior reopened in March 2018 after n...
Wakura Onsen
A Seaside Spa Still Rebuilding After the 2024 Noto Earthquake: the Public Bath Is Open, Kagaya Is Not
A hot spring town on Nanao Bay whose salty water first rose from the sea. The 1 January 2024 Noto...
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 ...
Okunitama Shrine
Musashi's Old Provincial Shrine and Its Lights-Out May Festival
The soja, or combined shrine, of old Musashi Province, five minutes from Fuchu Station, reached b...
Osamu Tezuka Manga Museum
Takarazuka’s Tezuka museum explores the imagination behind Astro Boy and other influential manga ...
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...
The National Art Center, Tokyo
A Wavy Glass Facade, 14,000 m² of Galleries and No Collection
A national art center in Roppongi with no collection of its own, only temporary exhibitions in 12...
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...
Mitaki-dera
Three Small Waterfalls and a Red Pagoda in the Hills Above Hiroshima
A Shingon temple on a wooded slope in Nishi Ward, named for the three small waterfalls on its gro...