Best Architecture Spot List

Super-tall floats light up the night sky

A sacred place connected to Hideyoshi

Where the successful Hideyoshi Toyotomi worshipped the three-faced Daikokuten

A foreign residence of highly exotic, colonial design

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.

View the world six meters below the water surface

The head temple of the Jodo sect, founded at the place where Honen Shonin passed away. The magnificent monastery was built under the wing of the Tokugawa family.

The head temple of the Shingon Sect's Omuro School. Holding a long association with the Imperial Household, the temple is also well known for its late-blooming cherry trees called Omuro-zakura.

The three-story pagoda is the symbol of Takahata

Marvel at the sight of money being produced before you

Motomachi Roman Catholic Church has one of the longest histories of any church in Japan. A large octagonal tower characterizes the church, which was rebuilt in 1924.

A broadcasting tower standing 147.2 m tall at the eastern edge of Odori Park with a panoramic view of the city of Sapporo from an observation deck about 90 m above ground.

One of Sapporo's three main tourist attractions. Built over 140 years ago, this clock tower is the oldest in Japan to use a pendulum, and continues to keep time.

A masterpiece of bank architecture from the early 20th century, stately but elegant

Tour a drama set and sense the humanity in its construction

Check out the mighty trees and zoo around this shrine

A contemporary western-style hall reminiscent of the early 20th century

The past glory of herring fishing can still be sensed here

Known by locals as ”Gan-gan (bong-bong) Temple”, this church is a symbol of the Motomachi church district

A museum in memory of the opening of Hakodate's port