Tourist attractions in Japan: profiles, services and practical information.
Asamushi Aquarium brings the marine life of northern Honshu into a visit that can fill much of a morning, yet still works as a day trip from Aomori. Its “Mutsu Bay Sea”…
View profile →Amanohashidate Station is small, but it organises much of the arrival to one of Kyoto Prefecture’s best-known landscapes. It is about a five-minute walk from the Monju e…
View profile →Geibikei opens its scenery from the water: boats move between limestone walls rising more than 50 metres above the Satetsu River. The round trip takes about 90 minutes a…
View profile →Amanohashidate crosses Miyazu Bay as a roughly 3.6-kilometre strip of sand and pine trees, one of Japan’s classic scenic landscapes. It is not a continuous seaside prome…
View profile →Genbikei follows the Iwai River between water-shaped rocks, rapids and small waterfalls along a stretch of about two kilometres. Visitors can get close to the scenery on…
View profile →Denshoen brings together several layers of Tono’s rural memory in a compact site. Its centrepiece is the Kikuchi family residence, a magariya farmhouse recognised as an…
View profile →Tono Furusato Village recreates a rural settlement in northern Japan with preserved Nambu magariya—L-shaped farmhouses where people and horses once lived together—set am…
View profile →At Sunabacho, beside the approach to the Kurushima-Kaikyo Bridge, the Itoyama terminal puts cyclists close to the scenery they came to see: the strait, its currents and…
View profile →Keyakidaira Visitor Center turns the wait for a train into an opportunity to understand the landscape. Its panels, photographs and maps introduce the gorge’s plants, wil…
View profile →From Unazuki, the narrow-gauge train leaves the settled valley and enters Kurobe Gorge, where tunnels, bridges and wooded walls make the ride itself the main attraction.…
View profile →Across from JR Imabari Station, i.i.imabari! Cycle Station helps visitors make an important choice before setting off: begin the ride in town or first head towards the K…
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ASPAM is Aomori’s tourism and regional-products centre, a 15-storey triangular building that has become a landmark by the port. Its name refers to Aomori Sightseeing Pro…
View profile →North of Kofu, Shosenkyo follows the Arakawa River between granite walls, waterfalls and formations shaped by water over time. The scenery changes with the seasons, but…
View profile →The Shosenkyo Ropeway changes the scale of the valley. In about five minutes it climbs from Sengataki to Panorama-dai, where the view opens across woodland, the Kofu Bas…
View profile →Founded in 1767, Imayo Tsukasa is one of Niigata’s historic breweries and describes itself as the brewery closest to the main station. The tour enters an operating facil…
View profile →Ponshukan sits inside Niigata Station’s shopping complex and offers a quick introduction to the breadth of sake without a visit to a single brewery. Its tasting room bri…
View profile →Toyama Glass Art Museum occupies TOYAMA KIRARI, a civic complex in the city centre that brings together art and the public library. Architect Kengo Kuma shaped a façade…
View profile →Toyama Glass Studio turns a tradition nurtured by the city for decades into a hands-on visit: here you can watch makers at work and shape an object of your own, not only…
View profile →The Kiku-Masamune Sake Brewery Museum shows how sake production depends on the crafts around it. Its rooms present traditional tools, the kimoto method—a way of preparin…
View profile →Hakutsuru opened an old sake brewery to the public so visitors can learn how the drink was made before mechanisation inside a genuine former workplace. Displays cover st…
View profile →Kaba Shuzōjō is a family brewery in Hida Furukawa whose history dates to 1704. Its shop is in Ichinomachi, a five-minute walk from the station, in a district where tradi…
View profile →The boat departs from a riverside base on the Yoshino River, where the mountains close in around the Oboke gorge. It moves beneath steep rock walls and green water; the…
View profile →Watanabe Sake Brewery makes the Hourai label in Hida Furukawa, a Gifu town framed by mountains and known for lattice-fronted merchant houses and white-walled storehouses…
View profile →Kazurabashi appears in a mountain gorge in the Iya Valley on Shikoku, where the river runs beneath a walkway woven from vines. The current bridge is 45 metres long, two…
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