Every Place in the Catalogue
1,610 spots
Hotokegaura
Locally knownTwo kilometres of white volcanic tuff on the western shore of the Shimokita peninsula, eroded by wind and sea into tower…
Nakamachi Komise Street
Locally knownKomise are covered wooden arcades built out from the front of a house over the public footway — a private roof over a pu…
Mitsuhama-yaki
Locally knownMitsuhama-yaki is a layered okonomiyaki, close to the Hiroshima style, which arrived because Mitsuhama and Hiroshima wer…
Mitsu Ferry
Locally knownA boat crosses eighty metres of harbour between Mitsu and Minatoyama in Matsuyama, on demand, from seven in the morning…
Oyamazumi Shrine
Locally knownOyamazumi is the head shrine of some ten thousand Mishima and Yamazumi shrines and the deity is the god of mountains, se…
Kamihaga Residence
Locally knownUchiko's money came from mokuro — Japan wax, pressed from the berries of the haze tree and used for candles, hair oil, p…
Sanuki Manno National Government Park
Locally knownThe only national government park in Shikoku, laid out across 350 hectares of hill country beside Mannoike reservoir. It…
Shoyu Mame
Locally knownShoyu mame is broad beans roasted dry and then dropped, still hot, into a marinade of soy sauce, sugar and chilli, and l…
Illustration — not a photographAnmochi Zoni
Locally knownKagawa's New Year soup contains a round rice cake filled with sweet red bean paste, in white miso broth, with daikon and…
Negoroji (Takamatsu)
Locally knownNegoroji is the eighty-second station of the Shikoku pilgrimage, in cedar forest on the Goshikidai plateau above Takamat…
Ogijima
Locally knownOgijima is a village stacked on a slope. The houses climb the hillside above the port in tiers and the ways between them…
Onigashima Cave
Locally knownMegijima is twenty minutes off Takamatsu, and near the top of it is a cave system running about four hundred metres into…
Gassantoda Castle
Locally knownGassantoda was the seat of the Amago, one of the great warlord houses of western Japan, and it is generally counted amon…
Iwami Tatamigaura
Locally knownIn 1872 the Hamada earthquake lifted a section of sea floor about a metre out of the water, and it has stayed there. The…
Oni no Shitaburui
Locally knownThe name means the demon's tongue trembling, and it comes from a story in the Izumo Fudoki about a shark deity in love w…
Kamosu Shrine
Locally knownEveryone goes to Izumo Taisha for the architecture. The oldest surviving example of that architecture is here instead, i…
Ogamiyama Shrine Okunomiya
Locally knownThe approach to the mountain shrine of Ogamiyama is seven hundred metres of natural stone laid as paving — the longest s…
Fudoin Iwayado
Locally knownA hall about thirteen metres high fitted into a natural rock cavern beside a mountain stream, its floor carried on long…
Itaibara Village
Locally knownItaibara is a small settlement in a fold of the mountains three kilometres north-east of Chizu, reached through a tunnel…
Ishitani Residence
Locally knownChizu was a post town on the Chugoku highway, the route the Tottori lords took to Edo, and the Ishitani were its wealthi…
Nageiredo
Locally knownNageiredo is a small hall wedged into a cliff hollow on Mt. Mitoku, held up on stilts of unequal length, and it is a Nat…
Yakage Post Town
Locally knownYakage was the eighteenth station on the Sanyodo highway, and unusually both of its principal inns survive: the honjin,…
Mount Washu
Locally knownMount Washu is 133 metres high and stands at the southern tip of Honshu's Okayama coast, looking straight down the Seto…
Katsuyama Preservation District
Locally knownKatsuyama was a post town on the Izumo highway and became Okayama's first designated townscape preservation district in…
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