Best Architecture Spot List

A beautiful western-style building in white and ultramarine blue

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

Old forests and valuable buildings from the turn of the 20th century

Houses that gave new life to waste materials

Check out the mighty trees and zoo around this shrine

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

Noboribetsu's animated statue of King Enma

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

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).

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 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)

The facade of the Asahi Group's headquarter building was designed in the image of a beer mug.

It is one of the largest mosques in Japan. The interior of the building is furnished with beautiful decorations, including stained glass mounted windows.

A tied-arch bridge that imitated the Ludendorff Bridge in Germany.

Purported to be the most beautiful of all bridges on the Sumida River. Characterized by its elegant silhouette.

The bridge stretching over the Sumida River was a favorite motif of Ukiyoe artist, Hiroshige Utagawa (1797-1858) of the end of the Edo period (1600/1603-1868).

The former residence of the Japanese diplomat, Jiro Shirasu, and his wife and essayist, Masako. He was a liaison officer with the occupying forces after the war, and instrumental in drafting the Constitution of Japan.

For people seeking beautiful hair

Enshrines Heihachiro Togo, Commander-in-Chief of the Imperial Japanese Navy, who defeated the Baltic Fleet.