Location List

This is a valley-shaped terrain sandwiched between the ridges extending from Mount Yasuman and a settlement surrounded by the sea. This area became a component asset of the "Hidden Christian Sites ...

This inn is located in a village hidden deep in the mountains, and was originally a private house, so you can take pictures of the traditional lifestyle. There is a wooden deck outside that you ca...

It is the symbolic presence of "Noto's Satoyama and Satoumi," which has been designated as a Globally Important Agricultural Heritage System. The landscape includes mountains, terraced rice fields,...

The sunset sinking into the Genkai Sea is beautiful. In summer, the ezquisite greenery melding with the blue of the sea creates a stunning contrast. It boasts some of the most attractive terraced r...

The lake is located at about a 25-minute drive from Tsuchizawa Station. Tanise Lake, created by damming the Sarugaiishi River, is a large artificial lake with a circumference of 45 km. In the vicin...

Okinawa World is Okinawa Prefecture’s foremost theme park and presents the local history, culture and nature all in one location. The parks main attraction is Gyokusendo. A 5-meter long limestone c...

Shinjo flourished during the Edo Period as a lodging town on the Izumo Kaido, an old road connecting the San-in and Sanyo regions. There are beautiful streams on both sides of the buildings. In 190...

Located at the southern tip of Awaji Island. Fukiagehama Beach is a white-sand beach where several films and TV dramas have been shot. No cityscape on the opposite shore. Swimming is not allowed.

These terraced rice fields can be found in the Yamato Katsuragi foothills area.

Onions are cultivated in the vast plains. More than half of the production in Saga Prefecture, the second largest in Japan, is grown in Shiraishi Town.

The view of the Genkai Sea through the terraced rice paddies is spectacular.

Reconstructed water wheel.

Zenta River The scenery of the path along the river. The road leads from a high place like an embankment, and you can see the countryside with the fields spreading. An atmosphere where encounters...

Nabebuta region, the lower reaches of Kaniegawa River and Nikkogawa River, is a wide rural area not far from central Nagoya.

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...

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...

opening movie(TV Series "Mare" 2015, NHK)

tv drama series "Mare" (2015,NHK) Aiko(Mare's mother) prayed for her husband's return

educational facility for Landscape planning & horticulture

A large park with a satoyama landscape: rice terraces, fields, reservoirs, ponds, etc. There are several thatched roof houses over 100 years old, as well as what is called a rural stage for perform...

Honjin refers to an officially approved large inn along the main road for the use of daimyos and aristocrats during the Edo period. The great Shoya (village headman) Murakami residence, once appoin...