Best Architecture Spot List

The animal taxidermy will surprise you

Hasedera or the Hasedera Temple is an old temple with a view of the ocean and the town of Hase in Kamakura. Various flowers bloom in the garden from season to season. Its principal image of worship is one of the largest wooden statues in Japan.

A 300-m-high, one of Japan's highest buildings, Abeno Harukas is a landmark of Oasaka that features a department store, an art museum and a hotel.

A guardian deity of water with miraculous virtue worshipped since ancient times. The shrine has been worshipped for better luck marriage by countless people through the ages, including nobles.

The building and garden represent the modern Japanese architecture in a semi-Western style.

Enshrines Japan's top Shinto deity

A building filled with products made locally in Aomori

Famous since the Edo period (1603–1868) for its god of business prosperity. Site of the largest Tori no Ichi open-air market in Japan.

Hakone Sekisho is an impressive reproduction of an Edo Period sekisho on the banks of Lake Ashi. It is as if you've slipped back in time to the Edo Period.

A lodging facility for guests on their way to visit Ise Jingu Shrine

Kudo-no-kami, the god of the kitchen, is enshrined here

A shrine for a popular matchmaking deity and associated with the puppet play “Sonezaki Shinju”

This ancient temple contains the history of the Southern Dynasty

This ancient temple was erected by Empress Komyo

A chalk lighthouse standing on a cliff

A shrine built to represent the nation's wish for peace. Yushukan displays relics and wills, and it is worth visiting.

The head shrine of Oshu, boasting 1,200 years of history

A shrine that has a beautiful vermilion-lacquered shrine pavilion from the Edo period. It is also called Sanja Gongen (in honor of three men who founded the temple), and the Sanja Matsuri held in May is one of the Three Great Festivals of Edo (now Tokyo).

A shrine to visit for breaking bad habits or starting good ones

Worshipers are charmed by the many flowers and large Kannon statue