Search results for Summer
Summer in Japan runs from June to August. We have put together the most beautiful sights of the season, including summer-only festivals and fireworks displays, blue summer seas and white beaches, mountains to climb precisely because it's summer, fields of sunflowers, cool highlands and forests, isolated islands, blooming hydrangeas, and the highland greenery of early summer.
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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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Happo Pond
- Nagano
- Like a giant mirror, the Hakuba mountain range is reflected on the surface of this mysterious pond. At an elevation of 2,060m, the red au...
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Ginzan Onsen
- Yamagata
- This hot spring was made famous by the NHK television drama “Oshin”. Gas street lamps burn at night, and the closely packed w...
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Baikamo, Samegai
- Shiga & Lake Biwa
- Samegai is famous for the marine “Water Buttercup” flower, a small white flower which blooms from mid. May to late August. Ch...
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Hitachi Seaside Park
- Ibaraki
- About 4.5million nemophila flowers spread over the ”Miharashi no Oka,” which is 3.5 hectares large! Besides nemophilas, many...
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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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Shimizu Stream Square (Nomizo Falls, Kameiwa Cave)
- Chiba
- This hidden gem in Chiba prefecture is an hour away from Tokyo. Instagram users consider it an almost magical sight to behold, particular...
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Sunflower Fields in Akeno
- Yamanashi
- Hokuto City in Yamanashi Prefecture is a mountainous town situated in the northwestern part of the prefecture, which boarders Kayano City...
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Kusasenri
- Kumamoto
- Kusasenri is located in the perfect location to gaze at the smokey Nakadake Peak of Mt. Aso. Around the big pond that spreads across the ...
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Angel Road
- Kagawa
- This sandy path appears twice in a day for about 4 hours, and only at low tide. At this time, Bentenjima island in the southwest of Shozu...