Every Place in the Catalogue
1,610 spots
Senba Lake Cycling
Little knownSenba Lake is a narrow, 12-kilometer-long reservoir on the northern edge of Mito City, created by damming the Naka River…
Kasama Himatsuri
Little knownThe Kasama Himatsuri (Fire Festival) is an annual late-April event when the historic 11-chamber Nikko-gama climbing kiln…
Oarai Beach
Little knownOarai Sun Beach is a 1.5-kilometer crescent of pale sand facing the Pacific, backed by pine groves and bordered by rocky…
Oarai Aquarium
Little knownAqua World Oarai is one of Japan's largest aquariums, specializing in sharks (54 species, the most of any aquarium in Ja…
Ushiku Daibutsu
Little knownUshiku Daibutsu is a 120-meter-tall bronze statue of Amitabha Buddha, standing in a lotus garden surrounded by flat farm…
Kasama Inari Shrine
Little knownKasama Inari Shrine is one of Japan's three great Inari shrines, dedicated to Ukanomitama-no-mikoto, the Shinto deity of…
Mount Tsukuba
Little knownMount Tsukuba is a twin-peaked mountain rising 877 meters from rice fields and suburban sprawl, visible from Tokyo on cl…
Tsukuba Science City
Little knownTsukuba was purpose-built in the 1960s as Japan's science city, a planned urban environment designed to concentrate the…
Oarai Fish Market
Little knownOarai Port lands some of the finest Pacific seafood in the Kanto region — flatfish (hirame), Pacific saury (sanma), monk…
Illustration — not a photographMito Natto
Little knownNatto — fermented soybeans bound by sticky, stringy threads — is Japan's most divisive food, beloved by locals and bewil…
Kasama Pottery
Little knownKasama-yaki pottery has been produced in this hillside town for over 250 years. Unlike the aristocratic refinement of Ar…
Kodokan
Little knownKodokan was established in 1841 by Tokugawa Nariaki as the educational heart of Mito Domain, embodying the Mito School o…
Illustration — not a photographKamiiso no Torii
Little knownA single vermilion torii gate stands on a jagged rock platform where waves explode into white spray at high tide. Kamiis…
Illustration — not a photographNarita Dream Farm
Little knownNarita Dream Farm is a 30-hectare agricultural park offering year-round fruit and vegetable picking — strawberries in wi…
Niemon Daiko
Little knownNiemon Daiko, hidden in the mountains of Kamogawa, is a taiko drum workshop and performance space founded by taiko maste…
Urayasu Edo-Style Bathhouse
Little knownBefore Urayasu became synonymous with Disney, it was a fishing village on the edge of Edo (Tokyo) Bay, and the town's ba…
Taibusa Cape
Little knownTaibusa Cape (太房岬) forms the southernmost tip of the Boso Peninsula, where the Pacific Ocean meets Uraga Channel. The su…
Nokogiriyama
Little knownNokogiriyama (鋸山, 'Saw Mountain,' 329m) earned its name from the jagged cliff face created by 300 years of stone quarryi…
Illustration — not a photographKamogawa Sea World
Little knownKamogawa Sea World, opened in 1970, is one of Japan's most advanced marine parks, known for its orca (killer whale) bree…
Illustration — not a photographChiba Peanuts
Little knownChiba Prefecture produces 80% of Japan's domestic peanuts, a dominance that began in the Meiji era when sandy coastal so…
Katori Shrine
Little knownKatori Shrine, founded over 2,600 years ago according to shrine records, is one of Japan's three great martial shrines (…
Sawara Historic District
Little knownSawara was a river port that got rich during the Edo period shipping rice and sake to Tokyo, and the merchant houses fro…
Tateyama Flower Fields
Little knownTateyama's temperate coastal climate — moderated by the Kuroshio Current — creates the 'Flower Highway,' a 50km stretch…
Maebara Beach
Little knownMaebara Beach, along Kamogawa City's Pacific coastline, is one of Chiba's premier surf breaks — a 1.5km crescent of sand…
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