Every Place in the Catalogue
1,610 spots
Minatoya
Little knownKeihan is Amami's dish and the format is unusual: shredded poached chicken, thin omelette, shiitake, pickled papaya, dri…
Illustration — not a photographFukuyama Kurozu Tsubobatake
Little knownKurozu is black rice vinegar, and Fukuyama has been making it the same way since around 1800: steamed rice, koji and spr…
Cape Sata
Little knownThe southernmost point of mainland Japan, at 31 degrees north, on a headland of subtropical forest at the end of the Osu…
Arahira Tenjin
Little knownA small shrine to Sugawara no Michizane, the deity of learning, built on top of a rock outcrop just offshore in Kinko Ba…
Karasengorge Somen Nagashi
Little knownFlowing somen usually means a split bamboo chute down which noodles are sent past you once, with one chance to catch the…
Ogawa Falls
Little knownForty-six metres high and sixty wide, falling into a pool of an improbable emerald green enclosed by columnar basalt wal…
Illustration — not a photographSogi Falls
Little knownThe Sendai river spreads to about two hundred metres wide at Sogi and comes over a twelve-metre step in a continuous cur…
Nikumaki Onigiri
Little knownA rice ball wrapped in marinated pork belly, roasted until the outside caramelises, and wrapped again in a lettuce leaf.…
Lettuce Maki
Little knownIn 1966 the owner of a sushi shop in Miyazaki City made a roll of boiled prawn, lettuce and mayonnaise. At the time raw…
Hiyajiru
Little knownHiyajiru is a cold soup poured over rice: grilled and ground dried fish, sesame and miso, thinned with cold dashi and fi…
Saitobaru Burial Mounds
Little knownThree hundred and nineteen burial mounds stand on a plateau outside Saito, built between the late third and the seventh…
Illustration — not a photographKunimigaoka
Little knownKunimigaoka is a ridge above the Takachiho basin where, according to the legend, Takeiwatatsu — a grandson of Emperor Ji…
Ebino Kogen
Little knownEbino Kogen is a plateau at around 1,200 metres in the Kirishima volcanic range, and it is the base for the climb up Kar…
Umagase
Little knownUmagase is the tip of the Hyuga peninsula, where cliffs of columnar-jointed welded tuff drop seventy metres into the Pac…
Shiiba Village
Little knownShiiba is counted with Shirakawa-go and the Iya valley as one of Japan's three great hidden regions, and the reason is t…
Aya Teruha Suspension Bridge
Little knownThe bridge is 250 metres long, 1.2 metres wide and 142 metres above the Ayaminami river, which for a long time made it t…
Himeshima
Little knownHimeshima is a small volcanic island off the tip of the Kunisaki peninsula, reached by a twenty-minute ferry, with a pop…
Futagoji
Little knownFutagoji sits at the centre of the Kunisaki peninsula, on the slopes of Mount Futago, which is the volcanic cone the who…
Hita Yakisoba
Little knownHita yakisoba is fried rather than stir-fried, and the distinction is the whole dish. Boiled noodles are pressed onto a…
Oita Prefectural Art Museum
Little knownBan Shigeru designed this building around a single idea: that a museum should not be a sealed box. The whole ground floo…
Saganoseki Seki-aji and Seki-saba
Little knownThe Hayasui strait between Kyushu and Shikoku runs a tidal current strong enough that horse mackerel and mackerel living…
Inazumi Underwater Cave
Little knownInazumi is a limestone cave that was drowned. The cavern formed over two hundred million years ago and was flooded rough…
Tadewara Marsh
Little knownTadewara is one of the largest intermediate marshes in Japan, sitting at about 1,000 metres on the Handa highland at the…
Kokonoe Yume Suspension Bridge
Little knownThe bridge is 390 metres long and hangs 173 metres above the Naruko river gorge, which makes it the highest pedestrian s…
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