ToyamaCulture & HistoryTonami - Gokayama
Suganuma Gassho-style Village, Gokayama
A World Heritage site, gassho-zukuri houses on the valley floor, lit up at night.
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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 9 of 29
ToyamaCulture & HistoryToyama
Yatsuo Townscape (Suwamachi Main Street and Hillside Stone Walls)
A town of slopes and stone walls. The name Yatsuo is said to come from eight mountains running from Hida toward Toyama.
ToyamaCulture & HistoryTateyama
Tateyama Murodo Sanso
Held to be the oldest mountain hut in Japan. Snow lies here even in August.
Tateyama
Ganmokuzan Ryusen Temple
A temple with seven hundred years of history, with a 300-metre tree-lined approach to its gate.
ToyamaCulture & HistoryToyama
Higashiyama Ento Bunsuiso
A registered national cultural property, dividing water by siphon pressure alone.
Toyama
Batabata-cha Denshokan
Try batabata tea, handed down in the mountain villages, drunk from a Gorohachi bowl.
ToyamaCulture & HistoryIshikawa
Noto-no-Kuni Ichinomiya Keta Taisha
The first shrine of Noto province. Said to be over 2,100 years old, it honours Onamuchi-no-mikoto.
IshikawaCulture & HistoryIshikawa
Wakura Onsen
Facing Nanao Bay, 1,200 years old — held to be the only sea hot spring in the Hokuriku region.
Ishikawa
Daihonzan Sojiji Soin
Founded in 1321 by Keizan Jokin. After the great fire of 1898 the head temple moved to Tsurumi in Yokohama, leaving this as the founding temple.
IshikawaCulture & HistoryIshikawa
Ishikawa Nanao Art Museum
Holds close to 400 works, mainly sculptural glass by contemporary artists from around the world.
IshikawaCulture & HistoryIshikawa
Nishi Chaya District
One of Kanazawa's three geisha quarters, one of the pleasure districts licensed by the Kaga domain in 1820.
Hakusan
Torigoe Ikko-ikki History Museum
The visitor centre for the Torigoe castle site, a national historic site, showing finds from the last stronghold of the Kaga Ikko uprising.
IshikawaCulture & HistoryIshikawa
Ataka Checkpoint
The setting of Kanjincho, one of the eighteen great kabuki plays. Bronzes of Benkei and Togashi were raised in 1940.
IshikawaCulture & HistoryIshikawa
Yamanaka Onsen Kiku-no-Yu
The communal bathhouse of a hot-spring town 1,300 years old. Basho wrote a verse here on the scent of its water.
Ishikawa
Awazu Onsen
Said to have been opened by the priest Taicho, the oldest hot spring in the Hokuriku region, with 1,300 years of history.
Awara - Sakai - Fukui
Saiko-ji Temple
The mortuary temple of Katsuie Shibata and his wife Oichi.
FukuiCulture & HistoryAwara - Sakai - Fukui
Shibata Shrine
Where Katsuie Shibata and Oichi met their end. Nobunaga granted Katsuie 490,000 koku, and he built his castle here.
Awara - Sakai - Fukui
Fukui Castle Ruins
The castle built by Hideyasu Yuki, second son of Tokugawa Ieyasu. Stone walls and moat remain.
FukuiCulture & HistoryAwara - Sakai - Fukui
Koya Kokuryu Shrine
Founded as guardian deity of the Kuzuryu River, counted among Japan's four ancient great deities.
FukuiCulture & HistoryAwara - Sakai - Fukui
Yokokan Garden
The villa of the Matsudaira lords of the Fukui domain. A national scenic site built around a large pond.
FukuiCulture & HistoryAwara - Sakai - Fukui
Ichijo Falls
A 17-metre waterfall, said to be where Kojiro Sasaki trained.
FukuiCulture & HistoryAwara - Sakai - Fukui
Reconstructed Townscape, Ichijodani Asakura Clan Ruins
A Warring States castle town rebuilt on the evidence of the excavations.