Museums Mikasa Park Water Show, Yokosuka Jessica A Paje Tucked beyond the preserved Memorial Ship Mikasa are beautiful man-made water streams, fountains and a waterfall at Mikasa Park..
Arts & Crafts Takayama’s Karakuri Museum Euan Prentis If you can't make it to Takayama for the town's famed festivals, be sure to drop by a performance of the mechanical karakuri..
Museums A Beautiful Cycle Tour in Shiga Suwannee Payne If you‘re looking for a place to cycle tour in Japan, there is one place I would like to recommend. Omihachiman, a little town..
Museums Uozu's Buried Forest Museum Sheila Burt Inside Uozu's Buried Forest Museum, dedicated to the eerie hidden underworld of a forest buried in the Sea of Japan some 1,500..
13 Historical Rurikoji & Toshunji Temples in Fall Sandra Isaka Visitors to Yamaguchi in autumn should be sure to visit Kozan Park's Rurikoji & Toshunji Temples. A historic five story pagoda,..
9 Museums Little World Inuyama Ann Yamagishi The presentation of several countries different cultures in this open air museum alongside the lush greenery lets you experience..
Museums Takumi no Sato traditional village Brian Sherlock Takumi no Sato is a traditional village formerly known as Niiharu. It is an area where you can try your hand at paper making, pottery..
Museums Hakone Check Point Tomoko Kamishima The Samurai Government in Edo (the original name for Tokyo) controlled “incoming guns and outgoing women” very strictly.