MOMAT (National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo)
Japanese Art Since Meiji, With a View Over the Palace Moat
Japan's first national art museum, opened in 1952 and in Kitanomaru Park since 1969. The MOMAT Co...
Michi-no-Eki Futami
Sunset seats on the Iyo Sea
A beach park and roadside station on Route 378, the coast road nicknamed the Yuyake Koyake Line. ...
Michi-no-Eki Nara Rekishi Geijutsu Bunkamura
Watch cultural treasures being restored in Tenri
Few roadside stations let you watch conservators at work. At this prefectural culture village in ...
Michi-no-Eki Sansan Minamisanriku
Seafood bowls and a tsunami memorial in Minamisanriku
Rebuilt Shizugawa after the 2011 tsunami, all in one place: the Sansan shopping street, the Minam...
Michi-no-Eki Tara
Ariake Sea seafood on the oyster-hut road
A seafood and citrus stop on Route 207, facing the Ariake Sea. More than ten oyster-grilling huts...
Mount Akagi
A Caldera Lake, a Shrine on a Peninsula and a 1,828 m Day Hike
A ring of peaks around a caldera above Maebashi, with Lake Onuma and the red halls of Akagi Shrin...
Mount Karakuni
Kirishima's 1,700 m Summit, Next Door to an Active Volcano
The highest peak of the Kirishima range at 1,700 meters, with a summit crater about 900 meters ac...
Mount Katsuragi
A Ropeway Up to the Azalea Slopes of Mount Katsuragi, Above Gose
A 959 m mountain on the Nara-Osaka border above Gose, with a wide grassy summit plateau that turn...
Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum
A Clock Stopped at 11:02 and a Rebuilt Cathedral Wall, for 200 Yen
The city museum on the hill above the hypocenter, covering the bombing of August 9, 1945, the dam...
Rinno-ji
Nikko's Head Temple: Three Gilded Buddhas in Sanbutsudo and Iemitsu's Black-and-Gold Taiyuin
The Tendai temple that has run Nikko's mountain worship since the monk Shodo opened it in 766. Tw...
Sada Chinkabashi
A 291.6-Meter Bridge With No Railings That Goes Under the Shimanto River in Floods
The longest submersible bridge on the Shimanto River: 291.6 meters long, 4.2 meters wide, with no...
Sendai Castle Ruins
Above Sendai on wooded Aobayama, Date Masamune’s former stronghold combines imposing stone walls ...
Soji-ji
A 164-Meter Corridor Wiped by Hand, Five Minutes from Tsurumi
One of the two head temples of Soto Zen, founded in 1321 on the Noto Peninsula and moved to Tsuru...
Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum
Prince Asaka's 1933 Art Deco Mansion and Its Lawns, Seven Minutes from Meguro
The 1933 home of Prince Asaka, with main rooms by the French Art Deco designers Henri Rapin and R...
Tomioka Hachimangu
Where Edo Sumo Began and Crowds Soak the Mikoshi Bearers
Founded in 1627 and known locally as Fukagawa no Hachiman-sama, the shrine where Edo's ticketed s...