6 Gardens & Parks Sapporo Botanical Garden Mandy Bartok Hokkaido University's Botanical Garden in Sapporo is a welcome escape from the summer crowds, with quiet paths and beautifully tended native plants
7 Arts & Crafts Statues Around Hiroshima's MOCA Chantelle Silva In Hijiyama Park, art isn't just confined to galleries
15 Arts & Crafts Kuma Seido no Kairo Art Gallery L. MacLean Sculpture in the open air at Kuma Country Club
Culture Dejima Mandy Bartok For over 200 hundred years, the tiny island of Dejima in Nagasaki Harbor was Japan's only point of contact with the wider world.
11 Traditional Happo-En Garden, Shirokanedai Peter Sidell Ten minutes from Meguro Station in Tokyo, Happo-En is a serene traditional garden whose name means 'beautiful from any angle', with ancient lanterns
Culture Toyohama Sea Bream Festival 2024 Late Jul There's something fishy going on in Toyohama! Toyohama, Minamichita