Location List

The oldest shrine in Takeo city.

The red, majestic appearance of the Holy Temple is eye-catching.

Tajima Shrine is located in Yobuko Town, Karatsu City.

An ancient temple of the Tendai sect. 1015 stone steps must be climbed to reach the inner shrine.

Spacious Japanese-style halls, magnificent wooden corridors and all parts of the temple could be used for samurai movies, etc.

<The Last Samurai> and popular television dramas have been shot. The historical and natural landscape could be used for various scenes.

Temple with a Sumo wrestling ring.

Yakuoji Temple is located along National Route 55. Many people visit this temple as the 23rd temple out of 88 temples in Shikoku.

On the island of Miyajima, there are World Heritage Itsukushima Shrine, known with the vermilion Great Torii Gate which completed great renovation work in 2022, and many other places to visit inclu...

Traces of Christian influence during feudal Japan can be found in a small shrine at Entsuin, the family temple of Lord Date Masamune.

The temple that has a great view where people can overlook the city area of Kanazawa. The precincts with full of nature have the main temple, halls, vermilion bridge, observation deck, and “karesa...

This building was erected in the mouth of a natural cave during the Daido period (806-810). The main temple was said to have been a part of the Jinkou Temple on Mt Myoken and to have been endowed w...

Togetsu-kyo Bridge built over O-jima Island is revival O-jima Island, Togetsu-kyo Bridge Famous Japanese poet Basho Matsuo having come first in Matsushima of the depths of Zuiganji Temple O-jima ...

Three torii gates create a mystical view as they float in the Ariake Sea. Tara-cho is known as the "town where the gravitational pull of the moon can be seen" due to the tidal range difference of ...

This is a site in which a culture transition from the Paleolithic period to the Jomon period (10,000 to 2,000 B.C.) has been observed. This cave measures 6 meters in depth and 3 meters in height an...

Hokoji Temple is the head temple of the Hokoji sect of Rinzai Buddhism and is one of the leading Zen temples in the Tokai region. Founded in the 14th century on a mountainside, 22 of its buildings ...

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Oujiyama park is a low hill located to the east of Sasayama castle ruin. There is a legend about "Makekirai Inari".

The only National Treasure in Akita Prefecture, the Senkoku Senju Kannon Tokyozo Mirror, is worshipped here at Sui Jinja Shrine. The treasure is made open to the public for a short time once a year...

According to the Nihon Shoki – known as the first Japanese history book – in December 613 Prince Shotoku came across a hungry man lying on the side of the road. Although he gave the man food, drink...