Best Visiting Spot List

This steep-sided gorge offers magnificent views of new spring greenery and fiery fall foliage

The beloved boathouse of Ryoma Sakamoto

Famous for its beautiful cherry blossoms and autumn leaves

Tour the distillery where Japan's first malt whisky was created

The head of Japan’s Kumano shrines—famous for matchmaking

A place where you can immerse yourself in nature and play in an atmosphere of undeveloped woodlands.

An inn popular for its spacious and comfortable guestrooms

Come face to face with lions behind glass

Understand and experience a disaster, while learning about minimizing risk and damage from natural disasters

Enjoy Shopping and Gourmet Food!

One of the most famous scenic locations on the Shimokita Peninsula, miraculously secluded with a mystical character fostered by nature

A chalk lighthouse standing on a cliff

Here at Shoren-in Temple, Emperor Kanmu prayed for peace for the capital and buried a shogun statue inside its burial mound

Experience arts from Akita

This is an art museum that houses and exhibits modern and contemporary Japanese art. It hosts special exhibitions on a wide range of themes.

A shrine for a popular matchmaking deity and associated with the puppet play “Sonezaki Shinju”

Southern Osaka's hippest place, where the all the trendy young people go

An oasis of water and greenery in the city center

It succeeds in recreating the model of railway trains down to the last detail by utilizing authentic railway technology. The museum of Nobutaro Hara's model railway and his collection.

Hasedera or the Hasedera Temple is an old temple with a view of the ocean and the town of Hase in Kamakura. Various flowers bloom in the garden from season to season. Its principal image of worship is one of the largest wooden statues in Japan.