Obuse
Kotsukotsu Mame to Utsuwa
A cafe in Obuse Town. It offers house-roasted coffee and tableware.
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Obuse
KUTEN. fuit&cake
A confectionery shop in Obuse Town. It uses fruit and ingredients from within a 30-kilometer radius.
Obuse
Obuse Chuka Soba Takano
A ramen shop in Obuse Town. It serves a clear chicken-stock soup and house-made noodles.
Azumino
Picture Book Museum & Cottage Mori no Ouchi
An art museum in Azumino City. Opened in 1994, it exhibits original picture book art from Japan and abroad.
Nagiso
Tsumago Tourist Information Center
A tourist information center in Tsumago-juku, Nagiso Town.
Obuse
Sweets Cafe Sanada-tei
A sweets shop in Obuse Town. It serves sushi, inari rolls and kuzu manju together as one set.
Obuse
Makoshi Yoko Obuse Memorial Museum of Art
An art museum in Obuse Town. It exhibits the works of the Western-style painter Makoshi Yoko.
Obuse
Western Chestnut Sweets naka
A Western-style confectionery shop in Obuse Town. It offers sweets made with chestnut paste.
Obuse
Hokushin Koon
A photography shop in Obuse Town. It also accepts on-location shoots within the town.
HyogoCulture & HistoryHyogo
Kiku-Masamune Shuzo Kinenkan
A museum at a Nada sake brewery, showing 350 years of brewing tools and process. Free to enter.
ChibaCulture & HistoryChiba
Chiba-shi Kagakukan
A science centre in Chiba City, with displays that come at science through everyday things.
WakayamaCulture & HistoryWakayama
Shionomisaki Lighthouse
A lighthouse at the southern tip of Honshu, first lit in 1873.
SaitamaCulture & HistorySaitama
Former Brick Manufacturing Facility Hoffmann Ring Kiln
The site of a brick factory in Fukaya. A Hoffmann ring kiln remains, and the bricks for Tokyo Station were fired here.
Yamaguchi
Tatara Ironmaking Heritage of the Choshu Domain
The heritage of tatara ironmaking in the Choshu Domain. The remains of the ironmaking that supported armaments at the end of the Edo period.
YamanashiCulture & HistoryYamanashi
Shingen Embankment
The Shingen Embankment in Kai. A discontinuous levee said to have been built by Takeda Shingen, it lets the water overflow while sapping its force.
YamanashiCulture & HistoryYamanashi
Katsunuma Sabo Dam
The Katsunuma dam in Koshu. An erosion control dam built in 1917, it is a Registered Tangible Cultural Property.
IwateCulture & HistoryIwate
Kamaishi City Iron and Steel History Museum
A museum of the history of ironmaking in Kamaishi, the place where a Western-style blast furnace first operated in Japan.
Iwate
Hashino Iron Mine Information Center
The Hashino iron mine, where a Western-style blast furnace went into operation in 1858. It is inscribed as a World Cultural Heritage site.
Ehime
Tonaru Historical Museum
Tonaru in Niihama. The site of a mining town that stood at an elevation of 750 meters. It is called the Machu Picchu of the Orient.
TokyoCulture & HistoryTokyo
Paper Museum
A museum in Oji on the history of paper in Japan, with papermaking to try.
ShigaCulture & HistoryKoka
Shigaraki Dento Sangyo Kaikan
A hall at Shigaraki in Koka, showing Shigaraki ware in order from the Kamakura period to the present.