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There are countless places across Japan where visitors can feel the special history and traditions of that location. Let us be your guide to historical buildings and townscapes, temples and shrines, ruins, castles, and traditional ceremonies.
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Rurikoin Temple
- Kyoto
- Rurikoin Temple only allows worship during the special worship period in spring (April to June), and autumn (October to December). The &q...
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Kawaguchiko Oishi Park
- Mt. Fuji
- Spreading like a purple carpet across the park during summer, the park’s lavender fields with Mt. Fuji in the background are a sigh...
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Narai-juku
- Nagano
- After travelers came over the worst of the Torii Pass, what waited for them was a post-station town known as ”Narai of the Thousand...
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Gioji Temple
- Kyoto
- This nunnery temple is featured in “Heike Monogatari”, a famous Japanese historical text. The story tells of a Shirabyoshi da...
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Hase-dera Temple
- Kamakura
- This temple draws large crowds in the high season around June. About 2 million hydrangeas are strewn on the mountain slope, and bloom du...
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Fushimi Inari Taisha
- Kyoto
- Very popular with tourists from overseas! Thousands of torii gates, the symbolic archway to Shinto shrines, have been line the entrance ...
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Funaya at Ine Bay
- Kyoto
- 230 boat houses facing the Sea of Japan stands in a row on the waters of Ine bay. On the first level of these traditional buildings, ther...
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Eiheiji Temple
- Fukui
- This temple was founded by the master of the Soto Zen Buddhism, Eihei Dogen, in 1244. It has an area of around 700 square meters and cove...
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Magome-juku Historic Post Town
- Gifu
- Magome is a once prosperous historic post town located at the southern tip of Kiso Valley. The post town is located on a 600-meter long s...
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Ninen-zaka and Sannen-zaka (Slopes at Kiyomizu-dera)
- Kyoto
- The gently sloping lanes with stone pavement are lined with many traditional souvenir shops and serve as the main tourist street of Higas...
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