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...
Yahiko Shrine
Bow Twice, Clap Four Times at Echigo's First Shrine Below Mount Yahiko
The first-ranked shrine of the old Echigo province, at the foot of 634 m Mount Yahiko, whose summ...
Chiran Peace Museum for Kamikaze Pilots
Portraits and Last Letters of 1,036 Army Special Attack Pilots
A museum on the site of the wartime Chiran airfield that displays the portraits, letters and will...
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...
Goryokaku Fort
Hakodate’s star-shaped fortress marks Japan’s encounter with Western military design at the end o...
Hakozaki Shrine
The Hachiman Shrine with an 'Enemy Surrender' Plaque Over Its Gate
A large Hachiman shrine in Higashi Ward that calls itself one of Japan's three great Hachiman shr...
Hiroshima Castle
Hiroshima Castle’s moats, stone walls and reconstructed Ninomaru buildings trace the city’s origi...
Kawasaki Daishi
The Bad-Luck Temple Where Candy Makers Chop to a Drumbeat
Heiken-ji, founded in 1128 and known as Kawasaki Daishi, is a head temple of Chisan Shingon Buddh...
Kushiro Shitsugen National Park
Japan's Largest Wetland, Seen from the Hosooka Lookout at Sunset
About 22,000 hectares of reed and sedge marsh north of Kushiro, Japan's largest wetland and a nat...
Kyushu Natural Animal Park African Safari
Feeding lions from a caged bus on a plateau near Beppu
A large drive-through safari park with about 70 species and 1,400 animals along a 6 km road. Driv...
Lake Motosuko
The Clear Western Lake Whose View of Fuji Is on the 1,000-Yen Note
The westernmost and deepest of the Fuji Five Lakes; the local tourism association calls its water...
Michi-no-Eki Arai
A big food stop shared by Route 18 and the expressway
On Route 18 in Myoko, next to the Arai parking area and smart interchange of the Joshin-etsu Expr...