Michi-no-Eki Toju-no-Sato Adogawa
Folding fans and boysenberries on Lake Biwa's west shore
The obvious break on Route 161 up the west side of Lake Biwa. Adogawa has made the ribs of foldin...
Michi-no-Eki Utsukushigahara Kogen
Japan's highest roadside station, open only from spring to autumn
At the end of the Venus Line, this station sits at roughly 1,930 m on the Utsukushigahara plateau...
Michi-no-Eki Yamba Furusatokan
A footbath beside the new bridges of Yamba Dam
A stop on the Route 145 Yamba bypass at the foot of Fudo Ohashi, one of the bridges built for Yam...
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 Nantai
Through a Shrine Gate at 6:00, Then 1,200 m Straight Up
The 2,486-meter sacred mountain of Futarasan Shrine, climbed only from the shrine's Chugushi on L...
Nakijin Castle Ruins
Long, curving stone walls cross the wooded hills of northern Okinawa at the former seat of the Ho...
Nezu Shrine
Seven Edo-Era Buildings, 3,000 Azaleas and a Tunnel of Red Torii
A gongen-style shrine finished in 1706 whose seven main structures are all Important Cultural Pro...
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 ...
Settsukyo Park
The Akutagawa River cuts through wooded hills north of Takatsuki, creating a gorge of rocky banks...
Sunpu Castle Park
In central Shizuoka, moats and reconstructed gates outline the castle where Tokugawa Ieyasu spent...
Yoshimizu Shrine
The Yoshino Shoin Where Yoshitsune Hid, Go-Daigo Held Court and Hideyoshi Came for the Cherries
A small shrine on Mount Yoshino that was Yoshimizu-in, a monks' lodging of Kimpusen-ji, until the...
Asuka-dera
The Asuka Daibutsu, Dated by the Temple to 609 and Called by It Japan's Oldest Buddha Statue, Photos Allowed
A small hall in the fields of Asuka on the site of the temple Soga no Umako began in 588. Inside ...
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,...
Gosho Aoyama Manga Factory
A museum in Hokuei about Detective Conan creator Gosho Aoyama, with displays and interactive exhi...
Hama-rikyu Gardens
A Seawater Pond and a Teahouse Below the Shiodome Towers
A former shogunal villa on Tokyo Bay whose main pond still fills and drains with the tide, the on...