Best Architecture Spot List

Sapporo's first park and social gathering center, built to receive noble guests of the Hokkaido Development Commission

A breakwater in the globally uncommon half-arch shape

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

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

A scenic view of Sapporo's heart

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

Check out the mighty trees and zoo around this shrine

A beautiful western-style building in white and ultramarine blue

Kinomiya Shrine, along with a towering 2,000 year old sacred tree on site, has been worshiped as a god of Atami since ancient times.

A Zen temple associated with warlord Date Masamune. Visit the main hall, which is a designated national treasure, and the architectural masterpiece that is the Kuri (kitchen building).

A shrine with 2,400 years of history and the largest shrine gate, symbolizing Yahiko.

A shrine of nearly 1300 years of history enshrining Asakusa Meisho Shichifukujin, Jurojin (the seven lucky gods of Asakusa’s famous shrines)

A soaring five-story pagoda at Senso-ji Temple in Asakusa with magnificent nighttime illumination.

The central bank in Japan. The public can visit the Main Building (Old Building), designated as a National Important Cultural Property, as well as part of the New Building. (Photo provided by: Bank of Japan)

The fierce-eyed Fudo Myo-o (Acala) statue, this Buddhist temple's main object of worship, is really astounding. The backdrop of beautiful red maple leaves is also impressive.

This is where Michizane Sugawara, the god of learning and study, is enshrined. You can enjoy flower festivals, too; there are flowers blooming all year round.

Main priests' residence of Senso-ji complex where the Three Buddha Statues of Amitabha are enshrined. The temple also houses ancestral tablets of Tokugawa Shoguns.

The Statue of Liberty in the Odaiba area is a replica molded from the Statue of Liberty in Paris, France.

It is a stone statue of an owl that was made into a landmark in the yard of the Ikebukuro Station when the JR (Japan Railways) was launched.

This shrine is mentioned in the ancient book Nihongi