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Kameyama Miso Yakiudon
Little knownRoute 1 runs through Kameyama and always has, which meant a steady traffic of long-distance lorry drivers and a row of c…
Takiharanomiya
Little knownTakiharanomiya is a betsugu of the Inner Shrine at Ise, forty minutes down the valley from it, and it is called a toonom…
Magose Pass
Little knownMagose is the most walked section of the Kumano Kodo Iseji, and the reason is the paving. Two kilometres of stone laid t…
Maruyama Senmaida
Little knownAbout 1,340 rice paddies step up a mountainside in the Maruyama district of Kiwa, in terraces so small that the local sa…
Akame 48 Waterfalls
Little knownForty-eight is a figure of speech meaning a great many; there are more than twenty named falls along this gorge, strung…
Meharizushi
Little knownMeharizushi is a ball of rice wrapped in a pickled takana leaf, and it was the working lunch of the Kumano river basin —…
Ryujin Onsen
Little knownRyujin is counted with Kawanaka in Gunma and Yunokawa in Shimane as one of the three waters of beauty in Japan. The spri…
Taiji Whale Museum
Little knownTaiji is a small town on the Kumano coast where organised whaling in Japan began — a system of nets and coordinated boat…
Sanadaan
Little knownAfter Sekigahara in 1600, Sanada Masayuki and his son Nobushige — the man popular history calls Yukimura — were exiled t…
Dojoji
Little knownDojoji is the oldest temple in Wakayama, founded in 701, and it is famous for a story. A woman called Kiyohime fell for…
Shirasaki Marine Park
Little knownA headland of white limestone laid down more than two hundred and fifty million years ago, dropping straight into deep b…
Dorokyo Gorge
Little knownDorokyo is a gorge on the Kitayama river where it forms the boundary between Wakayama, Nara and Mie — thirty-odd kilomet…
Oishi Kogen
Little knownOishi Kogen is a plateau at about 870 metres straddling Kimino and Aridagawa, and what grows on it is susuki — Japanese…
Shionomisaki Lighthouse
Little knownThe southernmost point of Honshu, on a thirty-metre cliff above the Pacific, with a white lighthouse first lit in 1873 a…
Tomogashima
Little knownTomogashima is a group of uninhabited islands in the strait between Wakayama and Awaji, and from the 1890s the army fort…
Aragijima
Little knownThe Arida river makes a tight loop around a spur of land at Shimizu, and the terraces cut into that spur have the shape…
Kawayu Onsen
Little knownAt Kawayu the hot spring comes up through the gravel bed of the Oto river, which means that if you dig a hole in the riv…
Omi Champon
Little knownOmi champon has nothing to do with the Nagasaki dish beyond the name. There is no pork bone broth and no milk: the soup…
Kinomoto Jizoin
Little knownKinomoto Jizoin is a temple to the eyes. Its Jizo has been venerated for sight for centuries, and outside the hall stand…
Lake Yogo
Little knownLake Yogo is a small round lake, about 6.4 kilometres around, sitting in a bowl of hills north of Lake Biwa and separate…
Yakisaba Somen
Little knownYakisaba somen was a gift, not a restaurant dish. In the farming villages around Nagahama a family whose daughter had ma…
Sagawa Art Museum
Little knownThe Sagawa Art Museum sits on the eastern shore of Lake Biwa as two low pavilions with tiled roofs appearing to float on…
ภาพประกอบ (ไม่ใช่ภาพถ่าย)Funazushi
Little knownFunazushi is what sushi was before it involved vinegar or raw fish. Nigorobuna, a carp found only in Lake Biwa, is caugh…
ภาพประกอบ (ไม่ใช่ภาพถ่าย)La Collina Omihachiman
Little knownFujimori Terunobu designed the main building of this confectioner's flagship as a hill with grass growing out of its roo…
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