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Tsukubasan Jinja
The two peaks, Nantaisan and Nyotaisan, are themselves the deity. A mountain sung of in the Manyoshu as a place of utagaki courtship gatherings.
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IbarakiShrines & TemplesTsukuba
Tsukubasan Omido
It stands next to Tsukubasan Jinja, a trace of the old fusion of Shinto and Buddhism.
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Benkei Nanamodori
You duck beneath a boulder that looks about to fall. Benkei is said to have turned back seven times.
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IbarakiArchitectureTsukuba
Tsukuba Center Building
Its sunken plaza inverts Michelangelo's Campidoglio - a high point of Japanese postmodern architecture.
IbarakiArchitectureTsukuba
Tsukuba Science City
A science city built to state plan, and with it a dense archive of 1970s Japanese public architecture.
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IbarakiNature & SceneryTsukuba
Mount Tsukuba
An 877-metre mountain with two peaks, Nantai and Nyotai, long spoken of together with Fuji as the mountain of the east.
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Tsukuba Expo Center
A science centre in Tsukuba with a planetarium and displays on the technology of the research city.
IbarakiExperiencesTsukuba
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) Tsukuba Space Center
The space development centre in Tsukuba, with a full-size rocket model and tours for visitors.
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Jinchu Gama-no-Aburauri
A street performance handed down in Tsukuba: selling Mount Tsukuba's toad oil with the traditional patter.
IbarakiCulture & HistoryTsukuba
Hirasawa Kanga Ruins
The site of a Nara and Heian period government office in Tsukuba, with three raised-floor storehouses reconstructed.
IbarakiHot SpringsTsukuba
Tsukubasan Onsen Tsukuba-no-Yu (Mount Tsukuba)
A hot spring partway up Mount Tsukuba, with an open-air bath over the Kanto Plain.
IbarakiNature & SceneryTsukuba
Numataya Honten
A confectioner in Tsukuba, making souvenir sweets before the gate of Mount Tsukuba.
IbarakiExperiencesTsukuba
Science Expo Memorial Park
A park on the site of the 1985 International Science and Technology Exposition, with its commemorative tower.
IbarakiFood & Markets