Location List

The entrance is easy to miss: a small, red arched bridge leads from the narrow shopping street to the temple complex. You follow a path along the river to the large Nio-Mon gate that marks the real...

The Takayama area is famous for making tea whisks (chasen). Local families have been passing down the trade for 500 years. The whisks are made from bamboo which grows across the area. This traditio...

Easily the most beautiful garden in Nara, Isuien is easily accessed on foot from Todaiji Temple or the Nara Municiple Art Museum. The main entrance takes you past the Neiraku Museum, included in th...

Nara Park is what many think of as "Nara." Stretching over about eight square kilometres, it encompasses major sites like Todaiji Temple, Kofukuji Temple and Kasugataisha Shrine, along with museums...

This small pond close to Nara Park is a pleasant place for strolling or taking a break. As you reach the top of the main shopping area along Sanjo Dori, you will see the pond, lined with willow tre...

With paths starting behind Todaiji Temple, Mt Wakakusa is easy to climb and rewards hikers with views as far as the Former Site of Heijokyo Imperial Palace. There is a small fee to enter one of the...

This spectacular hiking course features a moss-draped forest, a beech forest, wild animals including deer and views as far as the sea. Some have compared the views to the scenery in the movie “Avat...

This sweeping plateau, a beautifully vivid green in summer, is covered in pampas grass which turns a golden colour in autumn. Short hiking trails leading to the top of Mt Kuroso offer spectacular v...

If you don’t mind some steep stairs, this small shrine in a bamboo forest behind Ohmiwa Jinja Shrine has a lovely atmosphere. There is a small observatory in the shrine precincts with views over th...

Deep in a grove of cedar trees, this smaller shrine within Ohmiwa Jinja Shrine has a wonderfully mysterious atmosphere. Dedicated to medicine and healing, it houses a natural spring whose waters ar...

Established in AD645, this is one of Japan’s oldest Buddhist temples. It is famous with test takers who pray for good results. The temple houses a striking seven meter tall statue of Monju Bosatsu,...

The wide, lantern-lined avenue that leads to this Meiji era (1868- 1912) shrine gives you a hint of the grand scale to expect. Entering through the low-roofed gate into the vast gravel expanse, you...

A drive course located 2km from the Sekigahara IC on the Meishin Expressway, 17km in length and reaching all the way to Mr. Ibukiyama. You can see beautiful crimson leaves in the fall, and in parti...

Shizugatake has views over Okubiwako and Chikubushima to the north and south, Mt. Ibukiyama to the east and Lake Yoko to the north, and is known as one of the Eight Views of Lake Biwa. On the way u...

The longest cable car route in Japan at 2,025 m in total, opened in 1927. It connects the bottom of the mountain with Enryakuji Station in an 11 minute journey. Two cars leave every hour, on the ho...

The State Chamber, used as both a government office of the domain of Hikone and as an official residence of the domain lord, was restored to form this museum. Many artistic crafts, ancient document...

Yumekyobashi Castle Road starts immediately from the bridge that crosses the moat at Hikone-jo Castle, and is designed to evoke the townscape of the Edo period (1603 - 1868). It features multiple o...

Sakamoto flourished as the temple town for Hieizan Enryakuji Temple, including the homes for monks from approximately 50 different temples, and the townscape retains the elegance of that history ev...

This beach with beautiful, endless white sands and green trees is also alive with people enjoying playing in the water, camping, barbeque and marine sports. Also known as the venue for the hot air ...

Nagahama Castle was abandoned during the start of the Edo Period (1603 - 1868), the remains transferred to Hikone Castle and Daitsuji Temple, leaving only a stone wall and well behind.

Genkyu-en Garden is a Daimyo ("feudal lord") garden located to the north east of Hikone-jo Castle, created to resemble the Eight Views of Omi that in turn originate from the Eight Views of Lake Biw...

Hyakusaiji Temple is a "mountain castle" style temple belonging to the Tendai sect of Buddhism, surrounded by heavy walls of stone. One of the oldest temples in Omi, it was built partway up Mt. Osh...

The Nagoya City Museum is a Museum of History established in 1977 (Showa 52). Archaeological materials, art, industrial arts, documents, books, and people’s materials were collected, preserved, ke...

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