Michi-no-Eki Kamae
Yellowtail and dried fish at Oita's southern tip
A fishing-port station on Route 388 in Kamae, at the southern tip of Oita next to the Miyazaki bo...
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...
Mount Ibuki
Shiga's Highest Peak, Now Climbed Only From the Toll Road's End
At 1,377 meters, Mount Ibuki is the highest peak in Shiga, known for the wildflower meadows on it...
Nippara Limestone Cave
A Limestone Cave Inside Tokyo, Two and a Half Hours from Shinjuku
A lit limestone cave at the far end of the Nippara valley in Okutama, a Tokyo natural monument th...
Odawara Castle
Odawara’s reconstructed keep rises above moats, gates and a castle park close to the station. The...
Sendai Castle Ruins
Above Sendai on wooded Aobayama, Date Masamune’s former stronghold combines imposing stone walls ...
Takamatsuzuka Tomb
The Asuka Tomb Whose Painted Women Started an Archaeology Boom in 1972, with a Mural Museum Next Door
A small round tomb from the late 7th or early 8th century where painted murals of court women and...
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum
Japan's First Public Art Museum, Where Each Show Has Its Own Ticket
Opened in 1926 as Japan's first public art museum. There is no permanent collection display: the ...
Fukuyama Castle
Immediately above Fukuyama’s shinkansen station, a reconstructed keep joins surviving gates and t...
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...
Hamamatsu Castle
Tokugawa Ieyasu’s early career gives Hamamatsu Castle its historical focus. A reconstructed keep ...
Kuju Mountains
Kyushu's Highest Mainland Peak, Pink With Azaleas in Early Summer
A cluster of volcanic peaks on the Oita highlands whose top, Nakadake at 1,791 meters, is the hig...
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...
Lake Ikeda
Kyushu's Largest Lake: 233 m Deep, Giant Eels, Mount Kaimon Behind
A round caldera lake about 15 km around and 233 meters deep, the largest lake in Kyushu, with Mou...