Ikeda Castle Ruins Park
A landscaped hilltop park marks the former stronghold of the Ikeda clan, with a Japanese garden a...
Jison-in
Kukai's Mother's Temple at the Foot of Koyasan, Where the Choishi-michi Begins
A small Shingon temple by the Kinokawa river where, by tradition, Kukai's mother lived out her li...
Kashihara Jingu
Emperor Jimmu's Shrine Under Mount Unebi, With a Main Hall From the Kyoto Palace
A shrine to Emperor Jimmu, the legendary first emperor, built in 1890 at the foot of Mount Unebi ...
Kiyoshikojin Seicho-ji Temple
A climbing shopping street leads to Kiyoshikojin, where Buddhist worship meets devotion to the gu...
Michi-no-Eki Daiku-no-Sato
Where Beethoven's Ninth was first played in Japan
A small roadside station in German Village Park, on the site of the Bando prisoner-of-war camp. G...
Michi-no-Eki Hakone Toge
A mountain-pass stop above Lake Ashi
Kanagawa's first michi-no-eki, opened in 1995 at Hakone Pass on Route 1, close to the Shizuoka bo...
Michi-no-Eki Kirara Taki
Fig soft serve above a sunset beach
A Nordic-looking station on a terrace above the Sea of Japan, on Route 9 west of Izumo. Taki figs...
Michi-no-Eki Kuroisan Green Park
Mushiake oysters and fruit picking on the Okayama Blue Line
A hands-on station on the Okayama Blue Line in Setouchi, run around the seasons: strawberry picki...
Michi-no-Eki Ogo
Soba and farm shopping in rural northern Kobe
Ogo is a small roadside station in Kobe’s northern farming district, beside the Miki-Sanda prefec...
Michi-no-Eki Senmaida Pocket Park
The Shiroyone Senmaida terraces, open on weekends
The roadside station above the Shiroyone Senmaida rice terraces on Route 249. Damaged in the 2024...
Michi-no-Eki Tajima-no-Mahoroba
Tajima food shopping at Santo PA
Tajima-no-Mahoroba combines a regional food market, restaurant and food court at Santo PA in Asag...
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...
Mikurajima
Mikurajima: The Izu Island Where the Ferry Often Cannot Dock and You Need a Booked Bed to Land
A round, cliff-walled island about 200 km south of Tokyo with one small village, old-growth fores...
Miroku no Sato
A Fukuyama amusement park with a recreated 1950s street
A hillside amusement park west of Fukuyama with an 800-metre coaster, a 50-metre Ferris wheel wit...