Every Place in the Catalogue
1,610 spots
Okinoshima Island
Little knownOkinoshima is a small island connected to the Tateyama coast by a 500-meter sandbar, creating a tide-dependent land brid…
Choshi Fish Market
Little knownChoshi Port has been Japan's number one fish landing port by volume for multiple years running, processing over 250,000…
Yamasa Soy Sauce Factory
Little knownYamasa Corporation, founded in 1645, is one of Japan's oldest soy sauce breweries and the largest in Choshi — a city tha…
Illustration — not a photographInubosaki Lighthouse
Little knownInubosaki Lighthouse, built in 1874 by British engineer Richard Henry Brunton, stands 31 meters tall on Cape Inubo — the…
Narita Eel Restaurants
Little knownNarita's association with eel (unagi) dates to the Edo period when pilgrims visiting Naritasan Temple required high-prot…
Illustration — not a photographMusashi Ichinomiya Hikawa Shrine
Little knownMusashi Ichinomiya Hikawa Shrine (武蔵一宮氷川神社) is the grand headquarters of over 280 Hikawa shrines scattered across the Ka…
Tenranzan Hiking
Little knownMt. Tenranzan (天覧山, 197m) is Hanno's introductory hiking mountain — a gentle 40-minute ascent through cedar and deciduou…
Chichibu 34 Kannon Pilgrimage
Little knownThe Chichibu 34 Kannon Pilgrimage (秩父三十四箇所観音霊場) is one of Japan's three major Kannon temple pilgrimages — a circuit of 3…
Illustration — not a photographUrawa Unagi
Little knownUrawa (now part of Saitama City) has served as a freshwater eel capital since the Edo period when the Shiba River and su…
Nagatoro Autumn Foliage
Little knownNagatoro's limestone gorge transforms each November into one of Kanto's premier autumn foliage destinations — the layere…
Kashiya Yokocho
Little knownKashiya Yokocho (菓子屋横丁, 'Candy Alley') is a narrow 80-meter lane lined with traditional sweet shops selling dagashi (駄菓子…
Mitsumine Shrine
Little knownMitsumine Shrine (三峯神社) sits at 1,100 meters on a remote mountain peak in the Chichibu range, enshrining wolf deities (o…
Moomin Valley Park
Little knownMoomin Valley Park (ムーミンバレーパーク) is Japan's only theme park dedicated to Tove Jansson's beloved Moomin characters — a 40-…
Kawagoe Hikawa Shrine
Little knownKawagoe Hikawa Shrine (川越氷川神社) is one of Japan's premier 'enmusubi' (縁結び, matchmaking) shrines, believed to grant blessi…
Hodosan Shrine & Ropeway
Little knownMt. Hodo (宝登山, 497m) rises steeply above Nagatoro town, its summit accessible by a 5-minute ropeway ride that climbs 320…
Nagatoro River Rafting
Little knownNagatoro (長瀞) sits where the Arakawa River cuts through a crystalline limestone gorge, creating Class II–III rapids over…
Omiya Bonsai Village
Little knownOmiya Bonsai Village (大宮盆栽村) is a unique neighborhood dedicated entirely to bonsai cultivation — six historic nurseries…
Railway Museum
Little knownThe Railway Museum (鉄道博物館, Tetsudo Hakubutsukan) is one of the world's finest train museums — 28,000 square meters housi…
Hitsujiyama Park Shibazakura
Little knownEach spring, Hitsujiyama Park's hillside explodes into 400,000 pink, white, and purple shibazakura (芝桜, moss phlox) flow…
Chichibu Shrine
Little knownChichibu Shrine (秩父神社) claims a founding date of 2,100 years ago, though the current structures date to the 1592 reconst…
Kawagoe Unagi
Little knownKawagoe's proximity to the Arakawa and Iruma rivers made it a historical center for freshwater eel fishing, and the city…
Toki no Kane
Little knownThe Toki no Kane (時の鐘, 'Bell of Time') is Kawagoe's symbol — a wooden bell tower rising 16 meters above the merchant dis…
Odawara Castle
Little knownOdawara Castle (小田原城, Odawara-jo) was the stronghold of the Hojo clan during the Sengoku Period (1467–1615), famous for…
Shonan Beach
Little knownThe Shonan coast (湘南, Shonan) stretches 30km from Fujisawa to Oiso, encompassing multiple beach towns that embody Japane…
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