Best Historic Sites Spot List

The mountain villa where a scholar lived a secluded life

Learn about the defenses of this castle town and building fireproofing

Some of the samurai houses dating back to the Edo Period (1600/1603-1868) still remain in the castle town Sakura (Chiba), a place where you can get a glimpse of the daily lives of the samurai.

It is a 106-meter-long zenpo-koen-fun that is a mound shaped like a keyhole. This tumulus is the largest in Tokyo and is said to have been built in the 5th century.

The remains of Kumano Taisha Shrine, the birthplace of the Kumano faith

The Chidori-ga-fuchi Moat is located northwest of the Imperial Palace. The nature-rich sidewalk along the moat is called the Chidori-ga-fuchi Ryokudo (a green road), which runs for 700 meters. It is one of the most famous cherry blossom viewing sites in Japan.

One of the world’s largest tombs built around the mid-fifth century

An estate where Kishu samurai resided

One of the most outstanding castle ruins in all of Japan

These are memorial towers for Anjin Miura, the British foreign adviser to Ieyasu Tokugawa (the first shogun), and Anjin's wife, who was Japanese.

The hermitage written about in ”Saga Nikki”

Here at Shoren-in Temple, Emperor Kanmu prayed for peace for the capital and buried a shogun statue inside its burial mound

The site of the former mountain castle once considered impregnable

Jodo Teien that has remained almost unchanged

The beloved boathouse of Ryoma Sakamoto

This tomb is sealed by a giant rock weighing 2,300 tons

Enjoy the Japanese architecture in the elegant drawing room

A wall painting of a beautiful woman was discovered here

Ruins of the Sendai clan castle built by Date Masamune, who owned 620,000 koku

A star-shaped fort with the first French-style fortifications in Japan. The Battle of Hakodate took place here, and it's now open to the public as a park.