Every Place in the Catalogue
1,610 spots
Yobuko Morning Market
Little knownYobuko is a tiny fishing port at the northern tip of the Higashimatsuura Peninsula, accessible only by car from Karatsu,…
Itoshima Organic Farm Trail
Little knownThe inland areas of Itoshima Peninsula are defined by rice paddy agriculture — the combination of volcanic soil from Mt.…
Illustration — not a photographYame Lantern Festival
Little knownThe Yame Lantern Festival, held annually in mid-November on the grounds of Yame Hachimangu Shrine, is a gathering of ove…
Homan-zan Jinguji
Little knownHoman-zan (829m) has been sacred simultaneously to both Buddhism and Shinto since the 8th century — a mountain deity-hab…
Meinohama's Quiet Fishing Harbour
Little knownBefore the Itoshima seafood market crowds arrive, Meinohama's working fishing harbor on the southwestern edge of Fukuoka…
Kurume Tochiku Pottery
Little knownKurume is the centre of Tochiku pottery — a glazing tradition dating to the Edo period, characterized by a rustic iron-r…
Amago Falls
Little knownIn the mountain river valleys of Asakura, the Amago River has carved a narrow gorge where the water drops through a seri…
Kokura Castle
Little knownKokura Castle (1602) stands at the mouth of the Murasaki River where it meets the Kanmon Strait, commanding views of bot…
Raizan Sennyoji Temple
Little knownOn the upper slopes of Mt. Raizan, behind a cedar forest that filters almost all direct sunlight, Sennyoji Temple has be…
Mizuma Temple
Little knownPerched on a 221-meter hilltop above the Chikugo River plain, Mizuma-dera (水分寺) offers an extraordinary panoramic view t…
Yanagawa Canal Cruise
Little knownYanagawa was built on water — a network of 930 canals originally dug as defensive waterways around the castle and later…
Mojiko Retro District
Little knownMoji was one of Meiji-era Japan's most important international trading ports — the first point of entry for goods moving…
Asakura Akizukijo Castle Town Walk
Little knownAkizuki, a small post town in the mountains of Asakura City, contains one of Fukuoka's most complete and least-photograp…
Yame Gyokuro
Little knownYame, a hillside city 50 km south of Fukuoka, produces Japan's most sought-after gyokuro — a shade-grown green tea so pr…
Yanagawa Seiro Mushi Eel
Little knownIn Japan, the two great schools of eel preparation are unaju (grilled eel on rice, Kanto style) and seiro mushi (eel ste…
To-no-Hetsuri
Locally knownHetsuri is an Aizu dialect word for a cliff along a river, and this one has been cut by the Okawa for more than a millio…
Kosaka Mine Office
Locally knownKosaka was, at the start of the twentieth century, the largest producer of silver in Japan and later of copper, and in 1…
Korakukan
Locally knownKorakukan was built in 1910 as a welfare facility for the Kosaka mine, which was then one of the richest in Japan, and i…
Masuda Uchigura
Locally knownMasuda's merchants were rich on tobacco, silk and finance, and they built their storehouses inside their houses. An uchi…
Illustration — not a photographSeri Nabe
Locally knownSeri is Japanese parsley, one of the seven spring herbs, and Miyagi grows more of it than anywhere else in the country.…
Rairaikyo Gorge
Locally knownThe Natori river cuts a gorge twenty metres deep through rock at Akiu, right at the entrance to the hot spring village,…
Chitei no Mori Museum
Locally knownIn 1988, digging for a new school in the Tomizawa district of Sendai, archaeologists found a forest floor from twenty th…
Iwate Bank Red Brick Building
Locally knownTatsuno Kingo designed Tokyo Station, and this is the only building of his left standing in the Tohoku region. It was co…
Shayokan
Locally knownDazai Osamu wrote No Longer Human and The Setting Sun, drowned himself in 1948 at thirty-eight, and is read by essential…
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