Hidden Gems Across Japan
1,610 spots
Joshu Wagyu Beef
Joshu wagyu (上州和牛) is Gunma's premium beef brand, raised in the region's cool mountain climate and pure water from the T…
Mt. Haruna & Lake Haruna
Mt. Haruna (榛名山, 1,449m) is a dormant volcano with a crater lake (Lake Haruna, 榛名湖) at 1,100m elevation, surrounded by v…
Ikaho Onsen Stone Steps
Ikaho Onsen (伊香保温泉) is a hillside hot spring resort centered on 365 stone steps (石段街, ishidan-gai) lined with ryokan, so…
Oze National Park
Oze National Park sits at 1,400-1,600 meters elevation on the Gunma-Fukushima-Niigata border, a high wetland plateau whe…
Tomioka Silk Mill
Tomioka Silk Mill (富岡製糸場, Tomioka Seishijo) is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and Japan's first modern mechanized silk-ree…
Takasaki Daruma Dolls
Takasaki (高崎) is the birthplace of daruma dolls (達磨, だるま) — round, hollow, red papier-mâché figures modeled after Bodhid…
Minakami Onsen & Adventure
Minakami (みなかみ) is a mountain town in northern Gunma, famous for 18 distinct onsen areas and outdoor adventure sports. T…
Kusatsu Onsen Ryokan Stay
A night at a Kusatsu ryokan follows a ritual refined over centuries: check in around 15:00, change into the cotton yukat…
Kusatsu Onsen Yubatake
Kusatsu Onsen (草津温泉) is Japan's most famous hot spring resort, renowned for its yubatake (湯畑, 'hot water field') — a ste…
Akechidaira Ropeway
The Akechidaira Ropeway is a 3-minute cable car that ascends 300 vertical meters from the Akechidaira Plateau to an obse…
Nasu Animal Kingdom
Nasu Animal Kingdom is a 43-hectare zoo and animal park specializing in highland and grassland species from around the w…
Nikko Tamozawa Imperial Villa
Tamozawa Imperial Villa was built in 1899 as a summer retreat for the Taisho Emperor (then Crown Prince Yoshihito) and h…
Oya History Museum
The Oya History Museum is built into a former underground stone quarry where Oya Stone — a light, porous volcanic tuff u…
Tochigi Kurazukuri
Tochigi City was a prosperous merchant town during the Edo and Meiji periods, serving as a distribution hub for goods tr…
Nasu Onsen
Nasu Onsen is a collection of seven hot spring sources scattered across the volcanic slopes of Mount Nasu, a highland re…
Kinugawa Onsen
Kinugawa Onsen is a hot spring resort town in a narrow mountain gorge carved by the Kinugawa River. Discovered in the Ed…
Nasu Kogen Strawberry Picking
Tochigi Prefecture is Japan's largest strawberry producer, and the Nasu Kogen (Nasu Highlands) region hosts dozens of st…
Illustration — not a photographUtsunomiya Gyoza
Utsunomiya is Japan's self-proclaimed gyoza capital, with over 200 gyoza specialty restaurants and the highest per-capit…
Mashiko Pottery Town
Mashiko is a pottery town 100 kilometers north of Tokyo that became the spiritual center of Japan's mingei (folk craft)…
Ashikaga Flower Park
Ashikaga Flower Park is home to over 350 wisteria trees, including a 160-year-old giant wisteria (fuji) whose canopy cov…
Senjogahara Marshland
Senjogahara is a 400-hectare highland wetland at 1,400 meters elevation, formed when volcanic lava flows blocked drainag…
Lake Chuzenji & Kegon Falls
Lake Chuzenji sits at 1,269 meters in a volcanic caldera formed 20,000 years ago when Mount Nantai erupted and lava damm…
Shinkyo Bridge
Shinkyo is a vermilion-lacquered wooden bridge that arcs over the Daiya River at the entrance to Nikko's shrine district…
Toshogu Shrine
Toshogu Shrine is the mausoleum of Tokugawa Ieyasu, the founder of the Tokugawa Shogunate, and represents the absolute z…
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