Michi-no-Eki Obira Nishin Banya
A herring fishermen's lodge on the Sea of Japan coast
A stop on Route 232, the Oronro Line, roughly halfway between Sapporo and Wakkanai. Next door sta...
Michi-no-Eki Shichijo Melon Dome
Melons under melon-shaped roofs in Kikuchi
Three green melon-shaped domes on Route 325 in Kikuchi, filled with local melons, melon sweets an...
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 Takumi-no-Sato
Craft workshops in an old Mikuni Kaido post town
A roadside station spread across a farming village in Minakami, where more than 20 small workshop...
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 Yunishigawa
A hot spring bath upstairs from a mountain railway station
A roadside station in the mountains of northern Nikko, joined directly to Yunishigawa-Onsen Stati...
Mount Haku
Mount Haku: Four Hours Up to a 750-Bed Hut, Then 40 Minutes to the Top
A 2,702-meter volcano on the border of Ishikawa and Gifu, counted with Fuji and Tateyama as one o...
Nakayamadera Temple
A vivid blue five-story pagoda rises above Nakayamadera, a temple closely associated with prayers...
Niijima
6.5 km of White Sand and a Free Seaside Onsen Open All Night
A surf island about 160 km south of Tokyo, where Habushiura's 6.5 km of white sand faces the open...
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...
Osaka Cathedral (St. Mary's, Tamatsukuri)
Osaka's Catholic Cathedral, With Hosokawa Gracia and Takayama Ukon at the Door
The cathedral of the Catholic Archdiocese of Osaka-Takamatsu, built in 1963 on ground linked to t...
Seibuen Yuenchi
A 1960s Showa shopping street and a Godzilla ride in Tokorozawa
An old Seibu Railway amusement park that reopened in May 2021 as a full Showa-era set piece: a re...
Shoko Shuseikan
The Shimazu Family Museum in Satsuma's 1865 Stone Machine Factory, Next to Sengan-en
The Shimazu family's history museum, housed since 1923 in the stone machine factory of the Satsum...
Shoryaku-ji
A Valley Temple Southeast of Nara Where Refined Sake Began, at Its Best in the November Maples
A mountain temple about 4 km up a valley road from Route 169, where medieval monks worked out the...
Sunpu Castle Park
In central Shizuoka, moats and reconstructed gates outline the castle where Tokugawa Ieyasu spent...