Michi-no-Eki Shinshu Tsutaki-juku
Hot spring and Suwa sake at the Yamanashi border
A Route 20 stop just inside Nagano from the Yamanashi border, named after an old Koshu Kaido post...
Mount Asama
An Active Volcano Where the Alert Level Decides How Far You Climb
The 2,568-meter volcano that smokes behind Karuizawa, on the Nagano and Gunma border. The crater ...
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...
Rebun Island
Rebun Island: Flower Trails at the Far End of the Wakkanai Ferry
A long, low island west of Wakkanai, reached only by a ferry of about two hours. From late May to...
Tokyo Joypolis
Sega's Indoor Ride Park on Three Floors of an Odaiba Mall
Sega's indoor amusement park on the 3rd to 5th floors of DECKS Tokyo Beach in Odaiba, with simula...
Twenty-Six Martyrs Museum and Monument
The Hill Where 26 Christians Were Crucified in 1597, Five Minutes from Nagasaki Station
The execution ground of the 26 Martyrs of 1597, now a park with a long bronze memorial, a small m...
Yasaka Pagoda (Hokan-ji)
The Five-Storey Pagoda at the End of Kyoto's Most Photographed Lane
A 46-metre, five-storey pagoda rebuilt in 1440 that closes the view down Yasaka-dori. The street ...
Doai Station
Doai Station: 462 Steps Up from a Platform Inside a Mountain Tunnel
An unstaffed JR Joetsu Line station whose down-line platform sits inside the Shin-Shimizu Tunnel,...
Enjo-ji
Unkei's First Signed Statue in a Quiet Hill Temple East of Nara
A temple in Ninnikusen, in the hills east of Nara city on the old Yagyu road, with a late Heian p...
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...
Hida Folk Village (Hida no Sato)
Thirty Hida Farmhouses Rebuilt on a Hill Above Takayama
An open-air museum of about 30 old farmhouses, storehouses and workshops moved here from across t...
Holy Resurrection Cathedral (Nikolai-do)
A Green Byzantine Dome Two Minutes from Ochanomizu Station
The main cathedral of the Orthodox Church in Japan, a Byzantine-style church with a 35-meter gree...
Ichijodani Asakura Family Historic Ruins
A Castle Town Burned in 1573, Dug Up and Partly Rebuilt in a Fukui Valley
The site of the Asakura clan's castle town, which Oda Nobunaga's army burned in 1573, now a 278-h...
Kan'ei-ji
The Shogun Temple That Lost Most of Its Land to Ueno Park
Founded in 1625 by the monk Tenkai as the 'Hiei of the east', Kan'ei-ji was the Tokugawa family t...
Koshikijima Islands
Koshikijima Islands: Three Islands Joined by a Bridge, and Still Reached Only by Boat
Three inhabited islands about 45 km off western Kagoshima, joined end to end since 2020 by the pr...