Best Visiting Spot List

One of the four metropolitan parks at Sayama hill. Enjoy walking in the thicket that stretches through the entire park.

A Japanese garden with beautiful nature throughout the seasons

A 670-meter-long shopping street with a variety of small shops.

Experience the world inside the Man'yoshu

An urban oasis in Osaka and home to the Main Tower of Osaka-jo Castle. Together with plum trees and cherry trees, the park provides scenic beauty unique to each season.

View real-life tachineputa all year

One of Nara’s most famous gardens

Immerse yourself in the world of this photographer who loved the Yamato path

A large tea ceremony is held here to remember Toyotomi Hideyoshi

A fireworks festival that lights up summer night skies in color

The head shrine of all the Inari-jinja shrines across Japan. Its approximately 1,000 photogenic torii gates (an archway to a Shinto shrine) attract many visitors.

Enthrallingly steep cliffs nicknamed the ”Alps of the Sea”

The three-story pagoda is the symbol of Takahata

Enjoy the Sight of Mountains and Beautiful Fall Foliage Reflected off the Waters of a Lake

A garden which received the Award of Garden Excellence at the 17th World Convention of Rose Societies (2015). It is a garden where you can appreciate 10,000 roses of 1,500 varieties.

Pray for good health and matchmaking at this shrine built for subduing an epidemic

This museum displays the works of leading Japanese modern sculptor Fumio Asakura: the site is registered nationally as a Place of Scenic Beauty and the structure itself as a Tangible Cultural Property.

This lushly green shrine faces Midosuji boulevard and is more than 1600 years old

Flower gardens featuring around 30 flower varieties create a rainbow of color blanketing 150,000 sq.m. of the hills around Biei.

Mt. Yotei is also called Yezo Fuji for its resemblance to Mt. Fuji. There are plenty of activities to enjoy at the base of the mountain throughout the year.