Every Place in the Catalogue
1,610 spots
Kinojo
Little knownKinojo sits on a 397-metre ridge above the Kibi plain and is an ancient mountain fortress of a type built in western Jap…
Tsuyama Horumon Udon
Little knownTsuyama has eaten beef offal since the Edo period, when the domain was permitted to keep producing yosaku medicinal beef…
Hiruzen Highlands
Little knownHiruzen is a plateau at 500 to 600 metres under three peaks in Okayama's far north, and it is where roughly a fifth of e…
Yubara Onsen Sunayu
Little knownSunayu is a set of open-air baths on the bed of the Asahi river, directly under the 73-metre wall of the Yubara dam, whe…
Nagi Museum of Contemporary Art
Little knownIsozaki Arata designed this museum in 1994 around three permanent works rather than around a collection, which is close…
Inujima Seirensho Art Museum
Little knownA copper refinery opened on Inujima in 1909 and closed ten years later when the copper price collapsed, leaving brick ch…
Hinase Kaki-oko
Little knownHinase is an oyster port on Okayama's eastern coast, and kaki-oko is what the fishing families there did with the ones t…
Imbe Bizen Ware Village
Little knownBizen ware is one of the six ancient kilns of Japan and the only one that has never used glaze. Pots are formed from a h…
Innoshima Suigunjo
Little knownThe Murakami were not pirates in the sense the English word implies. They controlled the passages of the central Inland…
Kosanji Temple
Little knownKosanji was built by an industrialist who took Buddhist orders after his mother's death and spent thirty years and a for…
Imose Falls
Little knownImose is two falls in one valley behind Ohgashira Shrine, named as a married pair: Otaki, the husband, drops 30 metres i…
Sera Kogen Flower Farms
Little knownThe Sera plateau sits at around four hundred metres in the middle of Hiroshima, on soil that suits flowers better than m…
Saijo Sakagura Street
Little knownSaijo is named alongside Fushimi in Kyoto and Nada in Hyogo as one of the three great sake districts of Japan, and unlik…
Illustration — not a photographJoge White Wall Street
Little knownJoge sat on the Sekishu road between the Sea of Japan side and the Inland Sea, and in the Edo period it was made a shogu…
Taishakukyo Gorge
Little knownTaishakukyo runs for about eighteen kilometres through limestone in the north-east of Hiroshima and is one of the two gr…
Josei Falls
Little knownJosei drops 126 metres in three stages down a rock face on a tributary of the Sakugi river, and it is the only waterfall…
Illustration — not a photographMiyoshi Mononoke Museum
Little knownIn 1749 a sixteen-year-old boy in Miyoshi named Inou Heitaro was, according to the account written down afterwards, visi…
Kagura Monzen Toji Mura
Little knownKagura in northern Hiroshima is not a museum piece. Twenty-two amateur troupes in Akitakata alone perform it — masked da…
Fude no Sato Kobo
Little knownKumano makes about eighty per cent of Japan's brushes. It started in the nineteenth century when farmers here, unable to…
Gansu
Little knownGansu is a fish cake that has been breadcrumbed and deep fried. White fish surimi is worked with a lot of onion and chil…
Ondo no Seto
Little knownOndo no Seto is a channel about ninety metres across between the mainland and Kurahashi island, one of the busiest stret…
Alley Karasukojima
Little knownKure was the Imperial Navy's main base and built the Yamato in a dock a short way from here. The submarine pier at Karas…
Okunoshima
Little knownOkunoshima is a 4.3-kilometre island in the Seto Inland Sea with around seven hundred wild rabbits on it and a very dark…
Tamaruya
Little knownMizusawa udon is counted among Japan's three great udon alongside Sanuki and Inaniwa, and it developed to feed pilgrims…
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