Chogosonshi-ji
The Tiger Temple of Mount Shigi, Home Ground of Bishamonten and the Shigisan Engi Scrolls
A sprawling temple on Mount Shigi in Heguri, given over to Bishamonten and to tigers: legend says...
Gokanosho
Gokanosho: Five Refugee Hamlets at the End of Yatsushiro's Mountain Roads
Five hamlets in the mountains of eastern Yatsushiro, said to have been settled by Heike and Sugaw...
Hakone Open-Air Museum
Henry Moore on the Lawn, Picasso Indoors and a 28-Meter Footbath
Japan's first open-air art museum, opened in 1969: about 120 sculptures spread over 70,000 square...
Hateruma Island
Japan's Southernmost Inhabited Island, Reached by an Open-Sea Boat That Often Doesn't Run
The southernmost inhabited island in Japan: about 440 people, sugarcane fields, the white sand of...
Hiroshima Castle
Hiroshima Castle’s moats, stone walls and reconstructed Ninomaru buildings trace the city’s origi...
Lake Shoji
The Smallest Fuji Lake, Where Fuji Seems to Hold a Child
The smallest of the Fuji Five Lakes, about 0.5 km² and 6.8 km around, and the quietest. From the ...
MOA Museum of Art
Seven Escalators Up a Hill to Korin's Plum Screen Above Atami
A private museum on the hill above Atami Station with about 3,500 works of mostly East Asian art,...
Meguro Parasitological Museum
An 8.8-Meter Tapeworm and 300 Jars of Parasites, Free in Meguro
A small private museum devoted to parasites, founded in 1953 by the doctor Satoru Kamegai. About ...
Michi-no-Eki Kyoda
Mozuku tempura where the expressway ends
Okinawa's first registered roadside station, on Route 58 just past Kyoda IC where the Okinawa Exp...
Michi-no-Eki Marine Dream Nou
Red snow crab stalls beside a Sea of Japan fishing port
A Route 8 station next to Nou fishing port, known for Kaniya Yokocho, a row of stalls boiling and...
Michi-no-Eki Phoenix
Looking down on the Devil's Washboard
An old clifftop drive-in on the Nichinan coast, about 1 km south of Horikiri Pass. The building i...
Michi-no-Eki Shikabe Kanketsusen Koen
A geyser, a footbath and seafood you steam yourself
A roadside station on Route 278 in Shikabe, built beside a hot-spring geyser that goes off roughl...
Mount Omuro
A Grassy Volcano in Ito You Can Only Climb by Chairlift
A 580-meter scoria cone in Ito, a protected natural monument that nobody may climb on foot. A six...
Nozaki Island
Nozaki Island: An Emptied Island, a Brick Church and Two Boats a Day
A long, hilly island east of Ojika in the northern Goto chain. Over 650 people lived in its three...
Odori Park
A 1.5 km Strip of Lawn Through Sapporo That Hosts the Snow Festival
A park about 1.5 km long and 7.8 ha in area that runs west from the Sapporo TV Tower through 12 c...