10 Activities Hakone's Shojin-ike Pond Tomoko Kamishima Early in the morning, Shojin-ike Pond is exactly like a mirror. No sound, no waves, and no stream. So beautiful!
9 Culture Nagasaki Ohura Church Tomoko Kamishima Ohura Church stands on a hill in the Minami-yamate section of Nagasaki. It was built in 1865 as a Catholic Church memorial to 26..
8 Culture Yamate No.234 Tomoko Kamishima A private enterprise built an apartment house at Yamate No.234 for the purpose of coaxing back foreigners to devastated Yokohama,..
6 Culture Yamate No.68 Tomoko Kamishima Yamate No.68 stands inside Yamate Koen Park, where the history of tennis began in Japan. Yokohama City later purchased the house..
9 Culture Yokohama Yamate No.111 Tomoko Kamishima In 1926 an American businessman, Thomas Melvin Laffin, built a house for his just-married son, John Edward. They asked J.H. Morgan..
8 Culture The Diplomat’s House Tomoko Kamishima "The Diplomat’s House" is so lovely at dusk. The house was built in Shibuya, Tokyo in 1910 and then rebuilt in Yokohama's ..
12 Activities Mt. Maruyama Hiking Course in Nikko Tomoko Kamishima Mt. Maruyama (1689m) is located in the northeastern part of the Nikko mountain range. The course is a pleasant 2.5-hour roundtrip..
10 Culture Utsunomiya’s Matsugamine Church Tomoko Kamishima Constructed in 1932, the Catholic Matsugamine Church is the oldest and largest surviving building made of Ohya-ishi (Ohya Stone)...
