12 Culture Tokyo's Imperial Palace East Garden Peter Sidell Inside the Imperial Palace's moat, the east garden gives you a both a tranquil green space to relax beside its pond, and a lookout..
6 Culture Sen-oku Hakuko kan Etsuko Yamada If you are interested in traditional Chinese ink paintings, visit the Sen-oku Hakuko Kan Museum. This museum exhibits and preserves..
12 Culture Niigata's Saito Family Summer Villa Tomoko Kamishima In 1918, a wealthy merchant in Niigata, Saito Kijuro (IV), built a beautiful summer villa; carefully and spaciously planned for..
11 Culture Nagasaki’s Confucius Mausoleum Tomoko Kamishima The beauty of the many dignified structures here at Nagasaki’s Confucius Mausoleum will surely become deeply etched in your mind
17 Activities Bungee Jumping and Autumn Leaves Bryan Baier Japan's one and only place to go bungee jumping
10 Activities Hiraniwa Plateau, Iwate Josef Diermair The Hiraniwa Plateau, Iwate Prefecture is a quiet area with only a few people living here. I can recommend it for its lovely birch..
10 Culture En-no-ji Temple in Kita-Kamakura Tomoko Kamishima En-no-ji Temple in Kita-Kamakura enshrines the ten Kings of Hades—whom we meet when we die.
7 Activities Osaka Kaiyukan Aquarium Anonymous Kaiyukan is one of the largest aquariums in the world and a great destination for a rainy day.