Culture & History

A grand temple standing a tranquil mountain, made famous in the movie “The Last Samurai”

An area of sea, flowers and hot springs with fresh delicious seafood

A wooden sake museum using an old brewery built in the Taisho Era

Shirakawa-go boasts a temple with a thatched roof, an example of architecture that is rare even in Japan

A gassho-zukuri residence representing the Shirakawa-go area where you can experience the lifestyle from the old past

Founded in 1704, Kaba takes pride in its earnest approach to sake brewing which has been beloved by local residents

An old cobblestone road suffused with the atmosphere of the age of the Ryukyu Kingdom

The most popular high-grade sake in Gifu Prefecture is available here in the sake brewery that boasts a lot of “smiling faces”

The symbolic temple on Mt. Yoshino which has been called “the mountain at the center of the universe”

A museum expressing the attraction of Chichibu’s Meisen silk through modern and fashionable kimono

An ancient temple whose beautiful pagoda stands in comparison with the one at Horyu-ji Temple

An Italian-style garden on a small hill where two Western buildings have been moved and reconstructed

A museum relating Kakunodate’s traditional craft of kaba zaiku (bark craftsmanship) to future generations

One of the temples on the Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage, Ishiyama-dera is associated with Shikibu Murasaki

A quiet temple with a long history. Make your way there by firmly stepping on the stones on the pathway

Niigata’s No. 1 commercial area bringing in the new into an old townscape