Best Townscapes Spot List

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

Every day's a festival at this shopping street

One of Kobe's busiest areas

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

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.

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.

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.

You can have multiple enjoyments, such as shopping and leisure inside the safe, quality, and comfortable urban environment.

An irregular five-forked intersection near Otaru Music Box Museum

One of Hokkaido's oldest and finest shopping streets

Travel back in time to the frontier age

Some thirty establishments form a beacon of Ainu culture

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

This is the third (and oldest existing) underground mall in Japan.

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