Mori Art Museum and Tokyo City View
Contemporary Art on the 53rd Floor, Open Until 22:00 Most Nights
A contemporary art museum on the 53rd floor of Roppongi Hills Mori Tower, with exhibitions that c...
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...
Odawara Castle
Odawara’s reconstructed keep rises above moats, gates and a castle park close to the station. The...
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...
Ryujin Suspension Bridge
A Footbridge with a 375-Meter Span, 100 Meters Above a Dam Lake, with Bungee Jumps off the Middle
A pedestrian suspension bridge with a 375-meter main span, hung 100 meters above the lake behind ...
Ryukyu Mura
Old Okinawan farmhouses, eisa drums and a buffalo-turned sugar press
A village of red-tiled farmhouses moved here from around Okinawa, eight of them registered cultur...
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...
Yata-dera
A Jizo Temple in the Hills West of Yamato-Koriyama, Under 10,000 Hydrangeas in June
Properly Kongosen-ji, a temple halfway up Yatasan in the Yata hills west of Yamato-Koriyama, know...
Aoshima Cat Island (Ehime)
Two Boats a Day, 34 Passengers Max, and a Few Residents Among the Cats
A tiny fishing island 13.5 km off Nagahama where cats far outnumber the few elderly people who st...
Goryokaku Fort
Hakodate’s star-shaped fortress marks Japan’s encounter with Western military design at the end o...
Hachioji Castle Ruins
The Unfinished Hojo Mountain Castle Whose 1590 Fall Doomed Odawara
The ruins of Hojo Ujiteru's mountain castle, stormed by the armies of Maeda Toshiie and Uesugi Ka...
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...
Jiko-in
A Tea Master's Temple Where the Entry Fee Buys a Bowl of Matcha and a View over the Yamato Basin
A small Zen temple in Yamato-Koriyama built in 1663 by the tea master and local lord Katagiri Sek...
Kanda Myojin
Akihabara's Guardian Shrine, Where Masakado Sits with Daikoku
A shrine of about 1,300 years' standing, moved to its hill above Akihabara in 1616, with Daikoku,...
Kitaguchi Hongu Fuji Sengen Jinja
The Cedar-Lined Shrine Where the Yoshida Trail up Mount Fuji Begins
The shrine at the foot of the Yoshida Trail, where Edo-period pilgrims purified themselves before...