ShizuokaCulture & HistoryShizuoka
Ryosenji Temple
A temple in Shimoda where the Shimoda Treaty, an appendix to the 1854 Japan-US Treaty of Peace and Amity, was negotiated and signed.
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FIRST VISIT GUIDE
Before tracing culture and history — how shrines and temples differ, and how to pay respects
Many of Japan's cultural properties are found at shrines or temples. The two belong to different religions, and their entrances and ways of worship differ. Start with the differences and the etiquette.678 entries / page 11 of 29
ShizuokaCulture & History
ShizuokaCulture & HistoryShizuoka
View-O, Numazu Port Observation Floodgate
A floodgate at Numazu port with an observation room 30 metres up, among the largest of its kind in Japan.
ShizuokaCulture & HistoryShizuoka
Okuni Shrine
A shrine in Mori town with over 1,450 years of history and a long cedar-lined approach.
ShizuokaCulture & HistoryShizuoka
Hamamatsu Castle
A castle in Hamamatsu where Tokugawa Ieyasu spent seventeen years, with rough-stacked stone walls remaining.
ShizuokaCulture & HistoryShizuoka
Old Amagi Tunnel
A tunnel in Izu opened in 1905. The longest stone tunnel in Japan, on the road over the Amagi pass.
Gamagori
Muryo Temple (Cancer-Preventing Temple)
A Heian-period temple in Gamagori. People come from across Japan to pray against illness.
AichiCulture & HistoryToyokawa
Toyokawa Inari (Toyokawakaku Myogonji Temple)
A temple in Toyokawa counted among Japan's three great Inari, a Soto Zen temple properly called Myogonji.
AichiCulture & HistoryNagoya
Endoji Honmachi Shopping Street
A shopping street in Nishi ward, Nagoya, continuing west of the Endoji arcade, with old shops beside new ones.
Nagoya
Sekai Idol Kyowakoku
A venue in Sakae, Nagoya, made as a place to experience idol culture.
AichiCulture & HistoryNagoya
Wakeoe Shrine
A shrine in Kita ward, Nagoya, an old shrine listed in the Heian-period Engishiki.
AichiCulture & HistoryNagoya
Hoyu Hair Color Museum
A company museum in Nagoya on the culture and history of dyeing hair.
Nagoya
Kigakurin Banshoji Temple
A temple built in 1540 by Oda Nobuhide as the Oda family's mortuary temple, moved to Osu in 1610.
AichiCulture & HistoryNagoya
Nagoya Castle / Nishi no Maru Okura Shoho-kan
An exhibition building inside Nagoya Castle, preserving and showing the castle's holdings, including the Honmaru Palace paintings.
Nagoya
Osu Kimono Rental Waso Kajiura
A kimono rental shop in Osu, Nagoya, for walking the town in kimono.
Nagoya
Enmusubi Chambalin
A temple in Nagoya built in 2005 on the model of the oldest temple in Tibet.
AichiCulture & HistoryNagoya
Yutorito Line
A transit line in Nagoya on which the same vehicles run on guideway above ground and on ordinary roads below.
Nagoya
Nagoya Token Museum "Nagoya Token World"
A sword museum opened in Sakae, Nagoya, in 2024, showing about 150 blades at a time.
AichiCulture & HistoryNagoya
Aichi Prefectural Library
The prefectural library in Nagoya, one wing of the Aichi Arts Center.
AichiCulture & HistoryNagoya
Kinshachi Yokocho
A dining complex opened outside Nagoya Castle in March 2018, gathering the city's dishes.
AichiCulture & HistoryNagoya
Inu Shrine
A shrine in Nishi ward, Nagoya, said to date from 673, with a name read as inu.
Nagoya
Nagoya Sochinju Wakamiya Hachiman Shrine
The tutelary shrine of Nagoya, moved to its present site when Nagoya Castle was built in 1610.
Nagoya
Yokiso Historical and Cultural Museum
A villa in Nagoya used from the Taisho into the Showa era by the first president of Matsuzakaya.
AichiCulture & History
AichiCulture & HistoryNagoya
Furukawa Museum of Art (Annex Uzaburo Kinenkan)
A museum in Nagoya showing the art its first director collected, with a sukiya-style building in its annexe.