Location List

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 ...

There is a vast deep blue pond named Miyaike, and in the middle of the pond, there is a floating island called Kamejima (Turtle Island). Both sides of the 20-meter wide, approximately 300-meter lon...

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...

Built in 1000, Mirokuji Temple is a Buddhist temple of the Tendai sect and has a strong tie with Engyoji Temple. The temple gate, main hall, founder’s hall and other facilities are on the grounds o...

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...

Mt. Myojin observatory 360 degree panorama. At the Summit there are three observatory decks where you can enjoy a 360 degree panorama view. Mt. Myojin isn't that high, but it's said to overlook t...

Tanjoji Temple was built in 1193 on the site of the birthplace of Honen Shonin, the founder of Jodo sect of Buddhism. In fact, the famous ancient gingko tree is said to have been planted by the Hon...

An old Buddhist temple of the Tendai sect. The temple was burnt in a fire in 1573 but was rebuilt in 1586 by Hideyoshi. The wooden seated statue of Yakushi Nyorai is a Designated Cultural Property ...

In the past, this temple was moved to various locations by the Date clan as they changed their place of residence, before it finally settled in its current location when Lord Masamune moved to and ...

100 meter-long coast line. It is not open for bathing now.