「Cultural assets/historic sites」Tourist Attractions
Tsumagoshuku
Tsumago-juku is a post town located in Nagano Prefecture along the Nakasendo, and it is the 42nd of the 69 stations connecting Edo and Kyoto. With Ise Mountain to the west a...
The Nomura Family Samurai House
The "Nomura Family Samurai Residence," the only publicly accessible samurai house at the Nagamachi Samurai District, is an attraction featuring an esteemed samurai residence...
Hida no Sato
Hida no Sato is an open-air museum featuring over 30 traditional gassho-zukuri houses that have withstood heavy snowfall, representing Hida's architectural heritage. Each ho...
Miwa Town Udattsu no Machinami
Wakimachi Udatsu Townscape is a precious historic district that features about 430 meters of buildings from the mid-Edo period to the early Showa period. Blessed with the wa...
Bocchan Train
The "Botchan Train" is a diesel locomotive based on a steam engine that was beloved by the citizens of Matsuyama for 67 years starting from 1888. It gets its name from Natsu...
Hiyono Sato Okuwatayama
The secret kiln village of Okawauchi-yama is located in Imari City, Saga Prefecture, and was known during the Edo period as the official kiln of the Nabeshima family of the ...
Ouchi-juku
Ouchi-juku, located in Minamiaizu, Fukushima Prefecture, was once an important post town on the Aizu Nishi Kaido, a highway connecting Aizuwakamatsu and Nikko Imaichi. The s...
Yoshinogari Historical Park
Yoshinogari Historical Park is a national park where visitors can experience Japan's Yayoi period, located on about 54 hectares of beautiful hills straddling Kanzaki City an...
Goryokaku Park
Goryokaku Park is a national special historic site known as the location of the end of the Boshin War. It is where the old shogunate troops led by Takeaki Enomoto and Toshiz...
Northern Culture Museum
The Northern Culture Museum preserves and opens to the public the former grand residence of the Ito family, one of the most affluent farming families in Niigata. The approxi...
Hashima Island
Hashima Island, also known as Gunkanjima (Battleship Island), is an uninhabited island located approximately 40 minutes by boat from Nagasaki Port, which once thrived as a c...
Hiroshima Peace Memorial (Genbaku Dome)
The Atomic Bomb Dome is a UNESCO World Heritage Site located in Hiroshima City, and it is a building that was damaged by the first nuclear weapon used in human history. It r...
