KanagawaCulture & HistoryOdawara
Suzuhiro Kamaboko Museum
A kamaboko museum in Odawara, showing how it is made, with hands-on sessions.
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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 4 of 29
KanagawaCulture & History
KanagawaCulture & HistoryKanagawa
Noborito Laboratory Museum
The Noborito Laboratory Museum in Kawasaki. Meiji University presents the traces of the former Imperial Army's secret warfare research.
AkitaCulture & HistoryAkita
Kosaka Mine Office
A mine office built in 1905. A three-story wooden building and an Important Cultural Property.
GunmaCulture & HistoryGunma
Tajima Yahei Sericulture Farm
The former Tajima Yahei residence in Isesaki. A silkworm-rearing farmhouse for the seiryo-iku method, with a raised ventilation roof on top.
GunmaCulture & HistoryGunma
Arafune Cold Storage
Arafune Cold Storage in Shimonita. A facility that stored silkworm eggs using the cold air that comes out from gaps in the rocks.
GunmaCulture & HistoryGunma
Usui Pass Railway Heritage Park
A railway theme park in Annaka, showing more than 30 vehicles including those that crossed the Usui Pass.
IbarakiCulture & HistoryOarai
Aqua World Ibaraki Prefecture Oarai Aquarium
An aquarium in Oarai keeping more shark species than any in Japan, known for the sunfish in its great tank.
IbarakiCulture & HistoryOmitama
Ibaraki Airport
An airport in Omitama with domestic and international flights, sharing its runway with a Self-Defense Force base.
NagasakiCulture & HistoryNagasaki
Former Kosuge Slip Dock Site
The site of the former Kosuge Slip Dock in Nagasaki. A facility that hauled ships onto land by steam power, and a World Cultural Heritage site.
AomoriCulture & HistoryAomori
Mutsu Kagaku Gijutsukan
A science museum preserving the actual reactor room of the nuclear ship Mutsu, on a site overlooking the Tsugaru Strait.
Kagawa
Teshima Stonemasonry Culture
The stonemasons of Teshima. Traces of the industry that quarried stone remain.
KagawaCulture & HistoryKagawa
Kagawa Prefectural Higashiyama Kaii Setouchi Art Museum
The Higashiyama Kaii Setouchi Art Museum in Sakaide. It holds Nihonga paintings in its collection.
Kagoshima
Satsuma Shuzo Kedogawa Distillery Meiji-gura
The Kedogawa Distillery in Makurazaki. A storehouse from the Meiji era remains as industrial heritage.
Kagoshima
Sengan-en Reverberatory Furnace Site
The reverberatory furnace site at Sengan-en. The foundation of the furnace built to melt iron remains. A World Cultural Heritage site.
Kagoshima
Former Shuseikan Machinery Factory
The Former Shuseikan Machinery Factory in Kagoshima. A stone factory built in 1865, it is a World Cultural Heritage site.
Kagoshima
Yakushima Environmental and Cultural Village Center
The Environmental and Cultural Village Center on Yakushima. It is responsible for environmental education on the World Natural Heritage site.
HokkaidoCulture & HistoryHokkaido
Hachiman-zaka
A cobbled slope running straight down to Hakodate harbour. The sea and the ferry lie directly ahead.
HokkaidoCulture & HistoryHokkaido
Trappist Monastery
Japan's first monastery for men, opened in 1896. An avenue of cedars climbs to it.
HokkaidoCulture & HistoryHokkaido
Kamui Kotan
A gorge the Ishikari River cut through rock. The Ainu held it to be where gods dwell; the old station building remains.
Hokkaido
Otaru Canal Cruise
A roughly 40-minute cruise along the Otaru Canal, past stone warehouses and on into the North Canal.
HokkaidoCulture & HistoryHokkaido
Kanemori Red Brick Warehouse
Warehouses built in Hakodate in 1887, now holding shops and restaurants along a harbour-side walk.
Hokkaido
Temiyasen Atochi
The bed of the railway that linked Otaru and Temiya, kept as a walking path with the rails still in place.
HokkaidoCulture & HistoryHokkaido
Otaru Music Box Hall
A music-box shop in a Meiji-era building, gathering and playing boxes from around the world.
AomoriCulture & HistoryAomori
Jogakura Bridge
A 360-metre bridge over a Hakkoda ravine. The drop is long, and crowds come in the autumn colours.