9 Gardens & Parks Daishi Koen's Shinshu-en Sandra Isaka Just behind the famous Kawasaki Daishi Temple, hidden within Daishi Koen, is a lovely Chinese garden called Shinshu-en.
7 Historical Bluff No.18 Tomoko Kamishima With its orange roof, white walls and green window frames, Bluff No.18 is a very cute house. The garden is beautifully yellow when..
11 Temples & Shrines Kamakura's Kosoku-ji Temple Tomoko Kamishima Kosoku-ji Temple has a 200-year-old beautiful crabapple tree. It blooms at almost the same time as cherry blossoms in Kamakura.
Gardens & Parks The Nihon Minkaen in Kawasaki Elena Lisina Nikon Minkaen is an exposition of historical houses collected from all over Japan, now settled in Kawasaki.
10 Temples & Shrines Kamakura Tsurugaoka Hachiman-gu Josef Diermair Tsurugaoka Hachiman-gu Shrine is a small shrine compared to Kyoto-size shrines, but charming and very alive.
9 Historical Yokohama Yamate No.111 Tomoko Kamishima In 1926 an American businessman, Thomas Melvin Laffin, built a house for his just-married son, John Edward. They asked J.H. Morgan..
9 Gardens & Parks Kamakura's Wakamiya-oji Street Larry Knipfing The raised walkway is lined with cherry trees and lanterns and makes for a very pleasant outing year-round. Take your time, look..
10 Museums Hakone Museum of Art, Garden Tomoko Kamishima The moss garden of the Hakone Museum of Art becomes a hidden paradise in mid-November. 130 kinds of moss cover the garden, showing..