Hidden Gems Across Japan
1,610 spots
Katori Shrine
Katori Shrine, founded over 2,600 years ago according to shrine records, is one of Japan's three great martial shrines (…
Sawara Historic District
Sawara was a river port that got rich during the Edo period shipping rice and sake to Tokyo, and the merchant houses fro…
Tateyama Flower Fields
Tateyama's temperate coastal climate — moderated by the Kuroshio Current — creates the 'Flower Highway,' a 50km stretch…
Maebara Beach
Maebara Beach, along Kamogawa City's Pacific coastline, is one of Chiba's premier surf breaks — a 1.5km crescent of sand…
Okinoshima Island
Okinoshima is a small island connected to the Tateyama coast by a 500-meter sandbar, creating a tide-dependent land brid…
Choshi Fish Market
Choshi Port has been Japan's number one fish landing port by volume for multiple years running, processing over 250,000…
Yamasa Soy Sauce Factory
Yamasa Corporation, founded in 1645, is one of Japan's oldest soy sauce breweries and the largest in Choshi — a city tha…
Inubosaki Lighthouse
Inubosaki Lighthouse, built in 1874 by British engineer Richard Henry Brunton, stands 31 meters tall on Cape Inubo — the…
Narita Eel Restaurants
Narita's association with eel (unagi) dates to the Edo period when pilgrims visiting Naritasan Temple required high-prot…
Naritasan Shinshoji Temple
Naritasan Shinshoji Temple, founded in 940 AD, is one of Japan's most important Shingon Buddhist temples and a major pil…
Tokyo Disneyland
Tokyo Disneyland, opened in 1983, was the first Disney park built outside the United States and remains one of the most…
Tokyo DisneySea
Tokyo DisneySea is the only Disney park built specifically for adults and families, without a Cinderella Castle or Main…
Nagatoro Iwadatami Rock Shelf
The Nagatoro Iwadatami (長瀞岩畳, 'rock tatami mat') is a 500-meter exposed limestone shelf along the Arakawa River where ti…
Musashi Ichinomiya Hikawa Shrine
Musashi Ichinomiya Hikawa Shrine (武蔵一宮氷川神社) is the grand headquarters of over 280 Hikawa shrines scattered across the Ka…
Tenranzan Hiking
Mt. Tenranzan (天覧山, 197m) is Hanno's introductory hiking mountain — a gentle 40-minute ascent through cedar and deciduou…
Chichibu 34 Kannon Pilgrimage
The Chichibu 34 Kannon Pilgrimage (秩父三十四箇所観音霊場) is one of Japan's three major Kannon temple pilgrimages — a circuit of 3…
Illustration — not a photographUrawa Unagi
Urawa (now part of Saitama City) has served as a freshwater eel capital since the Edo period when the Shiba River and su…
Nagatoro Autumn Foliage
Nagatoro's limestone gorge transforms each November into one of Kanto's premier autumn foliage destinations — the layere…
Kashiya Yokocho
Kashiya Yokocho (菓子屋横丁, 'Candy Alley') is a narrow 80-meter lane lined with traditional sweet shops selling dagashi (駄菓子…
Mitsumine Shrine
Mitsumine Shrine (三峯神社) sits at 1,100 meters on a remote mountain peak in the Chichibu range, enshrining wolf deities (o…
Moomin Valley Park
Moomin Valley Park (ムーミンバレーパーク) is Japan's only theme park dedicated to Tove Jansson's beloved Moomin characters — a 40-…
Kawagoe Hikawa Shrine
Kawagoe Hikawa Shrine (川越氷川神社) is one of Japan's premier 'enmusubi' (縁結び, matchmaking) shrines, believed to grant blessi…
Hodosan Shrine & Ropeway
Mt. Hodo (宝登山, 497m) rises steeply above Nagatoro town, its summit accessible by a 5-minute ropeway ride that climbs 320…
Nagatoro River Rafting
Nagatoro (長瀞) sits where the Arakawa River cuts through a crystalline limestone gorge, creating Class II–III rapids over…
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