Yoshiminedera Temple
Yoshiminedera spreads across Kyoto’s western hills, with terraced temple paths, wide city views a...
Ako Castle Ruins
Irregular moats and stone walls outline Ako’s former coastal fortress, associated with the Asano ...
Byakugo-ji
Stone Steps Up the Foot of Mount Takamado to a View Across Nara, with a 400-Year-Old Camellia
A small hillside temple south-east of central Nara, under a kilometre from Shin-Yakushi-ji, reach...
Egami Church
A White Wooden Church on Stilts in a Seaside Valley of Naru Island, Built with Savings from Kibinago Net Fishing
A small white wooden church with pale blue window frames, built in 1918 by Tetsukawa Yosuke for d...
Hizen Nagoya Castle Ruins
Hideyoshi's Short-Lived Base for the Invasions of Korea
Stone walls and a bare keep base on a headland north of Karatsu, all that is left of the castle T...
Hotokegaura
White-Green Tuff Cliffs You Reach by Boat or 100 Metres of Stairs
About two kilometres of white and pale green tuff spires on the far west coast of the Shimokita P...
Ikeda Castle Ruins Park
A landscaped hilltop park marks the former stronghold of the Ikeda clan, with a Japanese garden a...
Iwakuni Castle
A reconstructed hilltop castle above Kintaikyo Bridge, with views over the Nishiki River and Iwak...
Karatsu Castle
A hill above Karatsu Bay carries a modern castle tower with broad sea and town views. The histori...
Korekawa Site
Lacquered Jomon Combs and the Gassho Dogu: Hachinohe's Korekawa Site and the Museum Beside It
A Jomon site in the southern hills of Hachinohe, Aomori, where a waterlogged ritual deposit prese...
Matsue Vogel Park
Begonias, owls and a penguin walk under glass by Lake Shinji
A flower and bird park on the north shore of Lake Shinji, built around a heated greenhouse of abo...
Michi-no-Eki Fujikawa Rakuza
Mount Fuji views and a planetarium above the Tomei
A roadside station joined to the Tokyo-bound Fujikawa service area of the Tomei Expressway. On a ...
Michi-no-Eki Heisei
Shiitake country in a village that shares an era's name
A small station in the hills of Seki, in a district written with the same characters as the Heise...
Michi-no-Eki Hota Shogakko
School lunch and a night in a former classroom
Kyonan’s town primary school closed in 2014 and reopened in 2015 as a roadside station. The gym i...
Michi-no-Eki Inagawa
Local soba and vegetables near the Osaka border
Inagawa pairs a farm-produce market with soba made from locally grown buckwheat. On Prefectural R...