Tourist attractions in Japan: profiles, services and practical information.
Iwatayama Monkey Park turns a short outing into a nature visit. From the entrance, across Togetsukyo Bridge, a mountain path climbs to a lookout where Japanese macaques…
View profile →Tenryu-ji stands at the heart of Arashiyama’s history. It was founded in 1339 by order of shogun Ashikaga Takauji to honour Emperor Go-Daigo, with Zen monk Muso Soseki a…
View profile →At 531 metres, Mount Moiwa opens up a wide reading of Sapporo: the city grid stretches across the Ishikari Plain and, on a clear horizon, reaches the bay. The observatio…
View profile →At the eastern end of Odori Park, the TV Tower makes central Sapporo easy to read from above: follow the 1.5-kilometre green corridor, the avenues and, on clear days, th…
View profile →La visita se hace desde el exterior, entre hormigón, vegetación y paneles explicativos. No se puede entrar libremente en las estructuras, un límite importante para ajust…
View profile →El lugar permite seguir el paso de la minería manual a la industrial. La inscripción de UNESCO en 2024 reconoció un conjunto de minas y paisajes que documenta técnicas n…
View profile →Kairakuen was not created as a garden detached from public life. Tokugawa Nariaki, the ninth lord of the Mito domain, founded it in 1842 and wanted both himself and loca…
View profile →Kobuntei is Tokugawa Nariaki’s former retreat inside Kairakuen, giving architectural form to the idea of sharing the garden. The feudal lord received guests here, hosted…
View profile →The Sakurajima Ferry is both public transport and the opening scene of an island visit. It crosses Kagoshima Bay between the city port and Sakurajima in about fifteen mi…
View profile →The Sakurajima Visitor Center is a compact volcano museum near the island ferry port, designed to put the landscape into context before a visitor sets out. Its exhibits…
View profile →The Mt. Kinka Ropeway links Gifu Park with the mountain above the Nagara River, carrying visitors to the summit in about four minutes. During a clear ride, the wooded sl…
View profile →At the foot of Mount Kinka, Gifu Park is a natural starting point for a day around the Nagara River and the city’s castle history. The municipal park combines paths, gar…
View profile →Naritasan Park changes the rhythm of a visit to the temple. Narita’s tourism association describes a landscape of about 165,000 square metres, with ponds, planted paths…
View profile →Naritasan Shinshoji is a major Shingon Buddhist temple whose institutional history dates its founding to 940 CE. The precinct is more than a single photo stop: the appro…
View profile →Ieyasu-no-yu is a free, covered outdoor footbath in front of Atami Station. The city says it was installed in March 2004 as a project marking 400 years since Tokugawa Ie…
View profile →Kappa Bridge is the best-known meeting point in Kamikochi: a pedestrian suspension bridge over the clear Azusa River, framed by the Hotaka range and Mount Yakedake. It i…
View profile →Ocean Spa Fuua occupies part of the Atami Bay Resort Korakuen complex, facing Sagami Bay. It is a day spa designed for spending several hours: indoor and outdoor baths,…
View profile →Taisho Pond is a landscape shaped by an event that can still be read in its details. In 1915, an eruption of nearby Mount Yakedake dammed the Azusa River and formed the…
View profile →Kimi Shokudo is a family-run diner in Tonoshiro, east of central Ishigaki, used by residents as well as travellers. Its menu centres on Okinawa soba: wheat noodles in po…
View profile →Yaeyama soba is one of the meals that best explains Ishigaki’s distance from the cooking of Japan’s main islands: the noodles are made from wheat, not buckwheat, and are…
View profile →Enryaku-ji is not a single temple beside a station but a monastic complex spread across Mount Hiei, on the border between Kyoto and Shiga. Founded by Saicho in the late…
View profile →Sakamoto Cable links the lakeside town of Sakamoto with Enryakuji’s upper station on the slope of Mount Hiei. Opened in 1927, the roughly 2,025-metre line is described b…
View profile →West of the main tower, Nishinomaru Garden offers an open stretch of lawn, pine trees and a direct view of the castle. Its roughly 6.4 hectares occupy part of the former…
View profile →The tower above the park is not a medieval castle preserved inside: since 1931 it has housed a museum devoted to Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the campaigns that reshaped politica…
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