Every Place in the Catalogue
1,610 spots
Furano Lavender Fields
FamousFurano's lavender fields (富良野ラベンダー畑) transform the Tokachi mountain foothills into rolling purple waves each summer (Jul…
Otaru Canal
FamousThe Otaru Canal (小樽運河) is a 1.3-kilometer waterway lined with preserved Meiji-era stone warehouses, now converted to res…
Illustration — not a photographMt. Fuji Yoshida Trail
FamousThe Yoshida Trail is the most popular of the four official Mt. Fuji climbing routes, accounting for over 60% of all summ…
Lake Kawaguchiko
FamousLake Kawaguchiko is the most accessible and developed of the Fuji Five Lakes, offering the clearest reflection views of…
Chureito Pagoda
FamousThe Chureito Pagoda, a five-story vermillion structure perched on the hillside above Fujiyoshida City, offers the postca…
Gokayama Gassho-Zukuri Villages
FamousGokayama is three mountain villages deep in Toyama's Sho River valley, known for gassho-zukuri farmhouses—steeply thatch…
Shirakawa-go Gassho-zukuri Village
FamousShirakawa-go (白川郷) clusters 114 gassho-zukuri (合掌造り, 'praying hands') farmhouses in a mountain valley where snow piles 3…
Mt. Fuji
FamousMount Fuji (富士山, Fuji-san) at 3,776 meters doesn't just loom over the Kanto plain—it commands it. The Shizuoka side owns…
Matsumoto Castle
FamousMatsumoto Castle (松本城) is one of Japan's five National Treasure castles and the oldest surviving original wooden donjon…
Kenrokuen Garden
FamousKenrokuen (兼六園, 'Garden of Six Sublimities') is one of Japan's Three Great Gardens alongside Kairakuen in Mitsukura and…
Ise Jingu
FamousWalking through Ise Jingu's forest approaches feels like stepping through a curtain between worlds. The path to Naiku, t…
Okunoin Cemetery Night Walk
FamousOkunoin (奥之院) is a 2-kilometer path through 200,000 moss-covered tombstones and memorial monuments beneath towering 500-…
Nachi Falls & Kumano Nachi Taisha
FamousNachi Falls (那智滝, Nachi-no-Taki) is Japan's tallest single-drop waterfall, plunging 133 meters from a sheer cliff into a…
Koyasan Temple Town
FamousKoyasan sits at 900 meters, a temple town of 117 buildings founded in 816 by Kukai (Kobo Daishi) as Shingon Buddhism's h…
Illustration — not a photographNara Park Maple Viewing
FamousNara Park transforms in autumn (mid-November to early December) when 2,000+ maple, ginkgo, and cherry trees turn vibrant…
Naramachi
FamousNaramachi (奈良町) is Nara's preserved merchant quarter with narrow lanes lined with traditional machiya townhouses dating…
Kasuga Taisha
FamousKasuga Taisha (春日大社) is Nara's most important Shinto shrine, established in 768 AD as the tutelary shrine of the powerfu…
Todaiji Temple
FamousTodaiji Temple (東大寺, 'Great Eastern Temple') houses the Daibutsu (大仏, Great Buddha) — a 15-meter-tall bronze statue of V…
Nara Park
FamousNara Park (奈良公園) is a 660-hectare park where over 1,200 wild sika deer roam freely among visitors, temples, and open mea…
Himeji Castle
FamousHimeji Castle (姫路城) is Japan's finest surviving feudal castle, nicknamed 'White Heron Castle' (白鷺城) for its brilliant wh…
Universal Studios Japan
FamousUniversal Studios Japan (USJ, ユニバーサル・スタジオ・ジャパン) is Osaka's most popular tourist attraction with 14+ million annual visit…
Shinsaibashi Shopping Arcade
FamousShinsaibashi-suji (心斎橋筋商店街) is Osaka's premier shopping arcade — a 600-meter covered pedestrian street lined with 180+ s…
Umeda Sky Building
FamousUmeda Sky Building (梅田スカイビル) is a twin-tower skyscraper connected at the top by a 'Floating Garden Observatory' (空中庭園展望台…
Illustration — not a photographShinsekai & Tsutenkaku Tower
FamousShinsekai (新世界, 'New World') is Osaka's retro entertainment district built in 1912, designed to evoke Paris (northern se…
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