Location List

Six rivers, large and small, run through Kanie Town and many parks and facilities are located alongside each river.

Kanie castle is said to have been built when Hojo Tokito first built a fortress in1429. There were three inner citadels and three branch castles by the Warring States Period (Sengoku Period), but t...

Kawashiri prospered as a port town and its streets are lined with historic cultural assets and important scenic structures, such as the Kawashiri Rice Warehouse Remains and the Funatsukiba Wharf, b...

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...

the traditional bamboo fences to save the houses from sunbeam in summer and northwind in winter

The Hyogo Canals are a generic name for the network of five canals (Shinkawa Canal, Hyogo Canal, Hyogo Feeder Canal, Karumojima Canal, Shinmanogawa Canal) in Hyogo Ward. The canals have a total of ...

Ikuta River is the river where Nunobiki Waterfall, the water collection point for ‘Kobe Water,’ and Shinkansen’s Shin-Kobe Station are located upstream.

Rokko River and Somatani River merge and become the Toga River that flows into Nada Beach.

Class B river in Kobe known as the river that appears in ‘Grave of the Fireflies,’ a Studio Ghibli film and a short story by Akiyuki Nosaka.

A 600-meter-long water park with commercial shopping/dining malls on both sides of the water canal. River Mall East (designed by Tadao Ando) , River Mall West, Island Center Station, and other faci...

The Ichinosaka River runs through the center of Yamaguchi. It is said that the Ouchi clan that ruled Yamaguchi during the Muromachi period (circa 1336–1573) likened the Ichinosaka River to Kyoto’s ...

Promenade in the city connecting Uecho where is the central urban area of the city and Kajomachi where the city hall is located.

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

These white-walled storehouses along the Tamagawa River retain the ambience of their origins in the Edo and Meiji periods. The area has been designated one of the most important traditional archite...

The park constructed in Hanamaki Castle ruin and the gate was rebuilt in 1995. Approximately 5-minute-drive from Hanamaki station on Japan Railway(JR）. Cherry blossom in the park bloom late April.

The streetscape of Ohamamachi area

These traditionalJapanese houses with long depth and narrow frontage are lined uptightly.Shops which sell traditional Gifu Uchiwa still do business today.

It is a natural scenery around Ashinomaki Onsen.

【Hida,Landscape】 In winter, there is heavy snow. Also row of icicles under a roofs.

typical landscape of moat

Built on the shore of Lake Togo, this is one of Japan’s top Chinese gardens, symbolizing the friendship between Tottori Prefecture and China’s Hebei Province. Designed by Chinese engineers and cons...