Location List

This building, built in 1942, was used as an elementary (primary) school for 70 years.　A two-story wooden building with an iron plate roof, it is very large for a school and has a characteristic h...

The area which used to be an inn town. Has a row of old buildings built in the Edo era （1603–1868）and the Meiji era （1868–1912）on the street approximately 1 km long and can see the remnant of b...

Built around 1930. There is a flowerbed designed by a famous author, Kenji Miyazawa.

About 60-minute drive from Hanamaki station on Japan Railway. Built in 807. Located in the village where has the starting point for climbing Mt. Hayachine. The main hall was built in the Keicho e...

Designated as a important cultural property of Japan, this colonial style building was built in 1880 and used as the U.S. Consulate for 10 years. After being used as a commercial building by severa...

Constructed as the residence of German trader, G. Thomas, in 1909. The house is famous for the weathercock ornament and became popular as the site of a TV drama. Designated as an important cultural...

A colonial style residence built in 1903. The house was the residence of Hunter Sharp, the American Consul-General of Kobe at the time. Moegi is the Japanese name for the green color of the house. ...

The Main Hall of Taisanji Temple is a National Treasure of Japan, originally built in 716. It was rebuilt in 1293 after a big fire in 1285. In addition to the Main Hall, a pagoda, and other facilit...

A Registered Monument of Japan. Was originally built as a private residence for Taijiro Kodera, a trading merchant. Is now an urban Japanese garden known for its beautiful azaleas.

Located on a vast land on Mt. Rokko is the campus of Kobe University with many buildings, including 5 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan: the Rokkodai Main Building (built in 1932), L...

As a national registered tangible cultural property, constructed in 1923 (Taisho period in Japan) The upper intake tower and handrails are made of brick(about 13m high and about 24m long). It has b...

At the end of the Nara period, when Kibi no Mabi returned from China in 733, he climbed Mt. Hakuhei in the Hiromine mountain range and received Gozu Tenno's trust. In 734, the main shrine building ...

Approximately 25-minute-drive from Hanamaki station on Japan Railway. They still offer mix bathing which is rare nowadays.

Gokuraku-dori is a small path between Higashi Honganji and Nishi Honganji Yokkaichi Betsuin, an area that flourished as a temple town of Kyushu Gobo.

Its 700 m-long approach is paved with natural stones. Japan's largest Gongen-styale Building.

ohura catholic church

Yakage Honjin Former Ishii Residence is a well-known residence that offered lodging for feudal lords in the 18th century. It has been designated as a National Important Cultural Property, and sever...

Comprised of both Western and Japanese style buildings, the former Matsumoto Residence was built in 1912 as a residence and guesthouse by Kenjiro Matsumoto. There are two buildings, and both were d...

Kumamoto Castle, with a history of over 400 years, is currently going under restoration from the earthquake in 2016.

Higashi Honganji Betsuin, a temple of the Shinshu Otani-ha, and Nishi Honganji Yokkaichi Betsuin, a templeof the Jodo Shinshu Honganji School, are adjacent to each other. The main hall of the Higas...

Ryuganji Temple is a small wooden temple built inside an enormous rock cave. In the inner sanctum of the temple floats a triad of floating wooden Buddhas, said to have been built by Gyoki Priest in...