Every Place in the Catalogue

Hamamatsu Music Box Museum

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Hamamatsu Museum of Musical Instruments (浜松市楽器博物館) houses 1,300+ musical instruments from around the world, spanning anc…

Perry Road

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Perry Road (ペリーロード) is a cobblestone pedestrian street in Shimoda following the route that Commodore Matthew Perry walke…

Shizuoka Oden

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Shizuoka oden (静岡おでん) is the prefecture's regional variation of oden (おでん, hot pot of simmered ingredients) distinguishe…

Sunpu Castle Park

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Sunpu Castle (駿府城) was Tokugawa Ieyasu's retirement residence after he passed the shogunate to his son in 1605. Ieyasu g…

Hamamatsu Sand Dunes

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Nakatajima Sand Dunes (中田島砂丘) are Japan's three largest coastal sand dunes, stretching 4km along the Pacific coast with…

Numazu Deep Sea Aquarium

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Numazu Deep Sea Aquarium (沼津港深海水族館) specializes in deep-sea marine life from Suruga Bay, one of Japan's deepest bays (ma…

Izu Kogen

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Izu Kogen (伊豆高原, 'Izu Highlands') is an elevated plateau on the eastern Izu coast, known for art museums, craft gallerie…

Joren Falls

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Joren Falls (浄蓮の滝, Joren-no-taki) is a 25-meter waterfall cascading through columnar basalt formations in the forested m…

Mishima Skywalk

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Mishima Skywalk (三島スカイウォーク) is Japan's longest pedestrian suspension bridge at 400 meters, suspended 70 meters above a f…

Shuzenji Onsen

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Shuzenji Onsen (修善寺温泉) is a historic hot spring town in the heart of the Izu Peninsula, founded 1,200 years ago when Bud…

Unagi no Kabayaki

Hamamatsu is Japan's eel capital, producing 40% of the nation's farmed unagi (freshwater eel) from Lake Hamana's brackis…

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Hamamatsu Gyoza

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Hamamatsu is one of Japan's two gyoza capitals (alongside Utsunomiya in Tochigi Prefecture), and local gyoza style empha…

Shimoda Beaches

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Shimoda (下田) is the southernmost city on the Izu Peninsula, famous for white-sand beaches, crystal-clear water, and hist…

Nihondaira Tea Plantations

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Nihondaira (日本平) is a hillside plateau overlooking Suruga Bay and Mt. Fuji, covered in perfectly manicured green tea pla…

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Happo Pond

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Happo Pond (八方池) is a small alpine pond at 2,060 meters elevation on the Happo-one ski resort's summer hiking trail, fam…

Nagano Oyaki

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Oyaki (おやき) are Nagano's traditional steamed dumplings made from buckwheat or wheat dough filled with local vegetables,…

Togakushi Shrine

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Togakushi Shrine (戸隠神社) is a complex of five Shinto shrines scattered across the forested slopes of Mount Togakushi, con…

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Shiraito Falls (Karuizawa)

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Shiraito Falls (白糸の滝, 'White Thread Falls') is a 70-meter-wide curtain waterfall where hundreds of thin streams cascade…

Karuizawa Resort Town

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Karuizawa (軽井沢) is Japan's original resort town, established in 1886 when Canadian missionary Alexander Croft Shaw built…

Hotaka Mountain Range

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The Hotaka Range runs along the spine of the Northern Japanese Alps, a series of 3,000-meter peaks connected by knife-ed…

Hokusai Museum

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The Hokusai-kan Museum (北斎館) in Obuse displays works by ukiyo-e master Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849) created during the…

Magome-juku

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Magome-juku (馬籠宿) is another Nakasendo post town, built on a steep hillside with dramatic views of the Kiso Valley and M…

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