12 Gardens & Parks Manyo Botanical Garden Tomoko Kamishima Manyo Botanical Garden is situated within the precincts of Kasuga Taisha Shrine and has 300 kinds of flower and plants mentioned in Manyo-shu (Collection
9 Gardens & Parks Ueno Park - Sakura Season Susan Tumanon the park, you can spend the rest of the day visiting nearby museums, shrines
Historical Enoshima Island and Beach Steve Morton red gate and several flights of stairs marking the entrance to the main shrine... Consisting of three actual separate shrines scattered across the island
9 Historical The Historical Town of Esashi R.S. Reynolds stretch that runs through the old part of town has a number of modest shrines
10 Gardens & Parks Kamakura's Hase-dera Josef Diermair Hase-dera Temple should be high on your list if you plan to visit Kamakura.
Museums Edo Wonderland, Nikko Alexandra Dorovici You will find replicas of houses, temples, busy streets, quiet gardens... When you'll have some time, let yourself be tempted by the delicious
11 Festivals Sabae's Makoto Ichi Festival Larry Knipfing Sabae's Josho-ji Temple Makoto Ichi Festival is a grand event with locals and visitors from near and far coming together to buy and sell antiques, and
Culture A Day at the National Noh Theater Jerome Lee center, architecturally similar to traditional kagura stages of Shinto shrines... hilarious story about a man visiting his in-laws with a barrel of sake from Kyoto
