7 Gardens & Parks Botanical Garden in Sengokuhara Masato Kitamura The Hakone Botanical Garden of Wetlands (Hakone Shisseikaen or 箱根湿生花園 in Japanese) is a wonderfully designed garden with..
12 Temples & Shrines Kita-Kamakura’s Engaku-ji Temple Tomoko Kamishima This complex of temples has a long pavement leading into the inner grounds. Zen temples usually place their buildings in a line,..
18 Gardens & Parks Kurihama Flower World Sher Ying Wee Spring - the famous season for flowers! Where better to find a never ending field of poppies than in the Flower World?
Museums Minka-en Larry Knipfing Kawasaki’s Minka-en is one of the most interesting places you are likely to visit here in Japan. This Folk House Museum has ha..
9 Traditional Zushi's Ganden-ji Temple Tomoko Kamishima Ganden-ji Temple is located on a cliff in Zushi. Nowadays, the image of Zushi is cool, a fashionable seaside city. But this temple..
Culture Japanese Painting From East to West 2021 Apr 3rd - Sep 26th 2021 Past Event A special exhibition taking place at Hakone's Okada Museum of Art looks at Japanese painting from the east to the west of the..
6 Historical Nippon Maru David Parmer What comes to mind when you think of sailing ships? Blue skies and billowing sails? Probably so. But sometimes,…well it rains.