Best Architecture Spot List

A scenic view of Sapporo's heart

Check out the mighty trees and zoo around this shrine

Tour a drama set and sense the humanity in its construction

Houses that gave new life to waste materials

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

A beautiful western-style building in white and ultramarine blue

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

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

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

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

Your base for exploring one of the world's largest calderas and active volcanoes.

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

A vault of many national cultural artifacts from the Nara period

This is a historical iron bridge that was illustrated in nishiki-e (multi-colored woodblock print) by an ukiyo-e artist, Hiroshige Utagawa.

The gateway to Miyakojima’s famous beaches and its iconic Miyako Blue sea.

A bridge with a beautiful rectilinear design listed in ”100 Views of New Tokyo.”

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

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