Best Townscapes Spot List

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.

An 800-meter-long shopping street with retractable roof for all-weather shopping. An area that continues to develop while retaining its old-world charm.

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.

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

A picture of life in Japan perfectly blended into nature

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

The early 20th century comes alive on this street of restaurants

One of Hokkaido's oldest and finest shopping streets

Travel back in time to the frontier age

An irregular five-forked intersection near Otaru Music Box Museum

Some thirty establishments form a beacon of Ainu culture

A promenade of zelkova, now as the symbolic road of Sendai, the city of forests. It is also popular in winter when it is lit up.

New, yet nostalgic. The station shopping arcade is a mix of older shops with history, and stylish, newer shops.

Midosuji takes its name from the Kita Mido Hall and the Minami Mido Hall, which are branch temples of Higashi Hongan-ji Temple and Nishi Hongan-ji Temple located by the roadside. As the face of Osaka, this grand boulevard runs through the city's heart and entertainment area and is lined with banks, trading company buildings, and hotels. Stretching 44 meters wide, the road extends four kilometers southwards from the front of Hankyu Department Store beside Osaka Station to Namba Station. The road is lined with four rows of gingko trees, whose leaves turn a beautiful yellow in autumn.

At 1.3 km long, Togoshi Ginza Shopping Street is one of the longest such streets in the Kanto area. Some 400 shops as well as many events including food fairs.

An alley roughly 300 metres from Ningyocho, named Amazake Yokocho after a shop selling sweet sake.

It is the main street of Ura-Harajuku (the Harajuku back street) along which stylish stores stand. There are cafes and some general stores on the street, so taking a stroll on the back street is fun as well.

The first lodging station of Old Tokaido Road, the main road that led to Edo (Tokyo). Visit the historical places and sites to trace the vestiges of a thriving town.

Shibuya is a very popular town for younger generations, and this crossing is one of the biggest scramble crossings in the world. It is a famous spot that appears in many movies.

This is an area where you can find all kinds of antique books. There are shops with new books as well.