Best Townscapes Spot List

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

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.

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

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.

Every day's a festival at this shopping street

A picture of life in Japan perfectly blended into nature

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

About 400 shops handling food products, such as fresh seafood and produce, are gathered in this market. It is a very popular spot for visitors from in and out of the country.

Kobe’s Chinatown has many famous specialties

From its152-meter-high observation platform, the Tokyo Tower can be seen right in front of you. This building is a skyscraper that houses various facilities.

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.

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

A town that developed near Ise Jingu Shrine

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

Maiko hurry back and forth at night amongst establishments fit for heads of state

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

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

One of Kobe's busiest areas

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

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.