Best Other Historic Sites Spot List

The mountain villa where a scholar lived a secluded life

The beloved boathouse of Ryoma Sakamoto

The hermitage written about in ”Saga Nikki”

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.

Enjoy the Japanese architecture in the elegant drawing room

An estate where Kishu samurai resided

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

A faithful reconstruction of a mid-19th century government office

Hokkaido's oldest railway played an important role during the frontier age

Familiarize yourself with history, culture, and art

*Temporarily closed for renovation work from Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2019 to fiscal year 2022.

Tourists like journey here for their own ”start to happiness” (kofuku)

This is a memorial monument of a samurai commander in the mid-10th century with his decapitated head used to be buried in a corner of the office jungle in Otemachi, Tokyo.

Yushima Seido is a temple whose traditions as a place of study have been handed down to posterity. It is well-known as the birthplace of modern Japanese education.

It is a poetic monument of the Namagumi Incident also known as the Richardson Affair, which took place in 1862, retelling the story of the death of an Englishman.

Mausoleum architecture representative of the early Edo period

In 1180, Yoritomo Minamoto raised an army to destroy the Taira family and revive the Minamoto family. He lost the Battle of Ishibashiyama, and guided by Sanehira Doi, hid in “Shitodo-no-Iwaya” (Shitodo Cave). Springwater flows down there and the rocks have become covered in moss. The cave, where it is cool even in summer, has an enchanted atmosphere as it contains rows of statues of Kannon and stone pagodas. Access: From Yugawara Station, take the bus headed to Motohakone for about 40 minutes The cave is a 10-minute walk from the Shitodo-no-Iwaya Iriguchi bus stop