Every Place in the Catalogue
1,610 spots
Kawaba Denen Plaza
Little knownMichi-no-eki are roadside stations — a network of highway rest stops with toilets, a farm shop and usually a canteen. Ka…
Aisai no Oka
Little knownTsumagoi grows more summer and autumn cabbage than anywhere else in Japan — roughly 150 million heads a year, on fields…
Lake Nozori
Little knownLake Nozori sits at around 1,500 metres at the literal end of Route 405 — the road stops at the lake and does not contin…
Mt. Iwabitsu
Little knownMt. Iwabitsu is 802 metres of broken rock rising straight out of the Agatsuma valley, with a sheer south face that makes…
Shango Tonyamachi Honten
Little knownTakasaki calls itself a pasta town, and the reason is partly that Gunma grows a lot of wheat and partly that Shango got…
Fujiya Honten
Little knownHimokawa udon is Kiryu's noodle and it is unlike any other udon in Japan: rolled out to a width measured in centimetres…
Shitamiya Honten
Little knownKiryu's version of katsudon has no egg and no simmering. A pork cutlet is fried, dipped straight into a dark sweet-savou…
Iwasakiya
Little knownOta yakisoba is not the pale, cabbage-heavy noodle dish sold at festival stalls. At Iwasakiya it comes out almost black…
Torihei Honten
Little knownAsk anyone from Gunma what they eat at a school sports day, a funeral, a company outing or a hanami, and the answer is a…
Usui Third Bridge
Little knownThe Usui Third Bridge is a four-arch brick viaduct finished in 1892, 91 metres long and 31 metres high, and it is the la…
Rakusan-en
Little knownRakusan-en is an early Edo daimyo garden in the small castle town of Obata, laid out by the Oda family — descendants of…
Ichinomiya Nukisaki Shrine
Little knownNukisaki is the first-ranked shrine of the old province of Kozuke and appears in the tenth-century Engishiki register, b…
Takatsudo Gorge
Little knownThe Watarase River narrows abruptly at Omama and cuts a rock channel through the town, and the result is a gorge you rea…
Shiriyaki Onsen
Little knownAt Shiriyaki the hot spring does not come out of a pipe into a tub — it comes up through the bed of the Nagasasa River,…
Nagai Shokudo
Little knownNagai Shokudo sits on Route 17 north of Shibukawa, in a stretch of road where there is essentially nothing else, and it…
Harashimaya Sohonke
Little knownYakimanju is the food Gunma people miss when they move away, and almost no guidebook aimed at foreign visitors mentions…
Iwashita New Ginger Museum
Little knownIwashita Shokuhin makes shin-shoga, a pale pink pickled young ginger sold in a distinctive jar across Japan, and in 2015…
SL Moka
Little knownThe Moka Railway is a 42-kilometre single-track line running east from Shimodate through rice country to Motegi, and at…
Bato Hiroshige Museum
Little knownKengo Kuma built this museum in 2000, before he was internationally famous, and it is the building where his approach be…
Sessho-seki
Little knownThe legend says that a nine-tailed fox, having failed to destroy the imperial court in the guise of a court lady, was hu…
Momijidani Suspension Bridge
Little knownThe Momijidani bridge crosses a reservoir arm of the Shiobara gorge on a 320-metre span with no stiffening girder, which…
Karasawayama Shrine
Little knownKarasawayama was a Fujiwara mountain castle held by the Sano family for centuries, and it is one of the few castles in t…
Oguraya
Little knownSano ramen is defined by how the noodles are made. A length of green bamboo is anchored at one end and the maker sits on…
Izurusan Manganji
Little knownManganji sits at the head of a narrow valley in the hills north of Tochigi City, founded according to its own account in…
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