Best Nature Spot List

It takes five minutes to the mountain peak by ropeway. Near the top is the okumiya (rear shrine) of Hodosan Shrine, a small animal park and a Japanese allspice garden.

A park memorializing Kobe’s glamorous modern history and the day of the earthquake

A large tea ceremony is held here to remember Toyotomi Hideyoshi

The representative garden of the Meiji period in Higashiyama

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

A trekking spot surrounded by mother nature

A green island at the southernmost part of Miura Peninsula. The island has a park with bountiful nature and restaurants serving seafood fresh from the boat.

Get up close and personal with a Japanese macaque

A Japanese garden with beautiful nature throughout the seasons

The symbol of marriage and matrimonial happiness

Enjoy Japan's outstanding weeping cherry blossoms

One of the world's largest aquariums with a massive tank where a whale shark glides gracefully. The aquarium duplicates the natural environment surrounding the Pacific Ocean.

The largest Tokyo Metropolitan Park rich with nature. Offers various leisure activities such as viewing the fields and the woods and playing in the forest.

An equestrian park where people and horses meet and interact. With seasonal flowers such as cherry blossoms, the park is also a popular place to relax.

Tour around the beautiful marshlands

Lava caves created in 864 AD by a Mount Fuji eruption from its flank volcano, Nagao-san.

Experience the Oku-Nikko loved by Sir Ernest Mason Satow

A massive, lushly green garden

A scenic trekking course with magnificent views of nature

Boasting the largest variety of jellyfish in the world