Best Townscapes Spot List

Bukeyashiki Street with the Ashina family's 15,000-koku castle town. The direct descendants of the family still live in one of the upper-class samurai residences.

Street connecting the east exit of Ikebukuro station to Sunshine, lined with numerous shops.

The main street of Gion features a machiya-style townscape on a cobblestone street

A picture of life in Japan perfectly blended into nature

A nationally designated Preservation District for Groups of Traditional Buildings, overflowing with exotic appeal

A street that feels like it’s from the Edo Period

It is an area where restaurants that make you feel the traditional Japanese atmosphere are dotted in the alleys, and it is delightful to walk in the area at night.

This store sells dried products such as bonito, kelp and small sardines — all indispensable to the seasoning of Japanese cuisine.

It is a shopping district specializing in food-related specialty shops, and the district stretches about 800 meters from north to south between the Asakusa and Ueno areas.

Yokohama Chinatown is a business quarter where you can taste authentic Chinese food in Yokohama. It is also popular because you can shop for Asian-styled sundries and souvenirs.

Akihabara Electric Town or Akihabara Denki Gai is an area crowded with stores that handle various electrical goods. There are many stores that carry anime and figurine-related goods as well.

Popular with tourists, check out this shopping district and its old Japan feel

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

A stone paved street where shops of long standing are lined up, full of Kyoto atmosphere

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

A complex with a tree-like architecture combining public and private facilities.

A unique back street of Akihabara Electric Town, full of stores selling PC peripherals.

A town that developed near Ise Jingu Shrine

This is a Korean town where both Japanese and Korean shops are gathered. It is brimming with an exotic atmosphere where you can enjoy authentic Korean food, cosmetics, and culture.

Kobe’s Chinatown has many famous specialties