What? The Kyushu Olle Takeo (九州オルレ武雄コース) walking course leads you around Takeo town (武雄市) and its surr...
What? Saga (佐賀市) is little known even in Japan, apart from its International Balloon Festival held ev...
What? The Kyushu Olle Karatsu course (九州オルレ唐津コース) is a walking course of approximately 11 kilometers ...
What? Yoshinogari Historical Park (吉野ヶ里歴史公園) is a huge park encompassing a large archeological excavat...
What? The Abashiri Prison Museum (博物館網走監獄) is the only museum of its kind in Japan. The prison was con...
What? Mount Oe (大江山) is a series of peaks in the small village of Oe, now fully incorporated in Fukuch...
What? Takarazuka (宝塚) is a city most famous for its all-female musical theater troupe. Take any line ...
What? Soni Kogen (曽爾高原) is a man made highland deep inside Nara Prefecture (奈良県). The high season is...
What? Mount Yamato Katsuragi (大和葛城山) is a 959 meters high mountain in the Kansai area. It is most famo...
What? Naoshima (直島) is one of those places that nobody ever heard of 10 years ago. Now it figures in p...
What? Nagasaki (長崎) is a port city located in the west of Kyushu (九州), making it one of the nearest pl...
What? Gunkanjima (軍艦島) – officially called Hashima (端島) – is an island off the coast of Nagasaki (長崎)...
What? Nokonoshima (能古島) is an island a mere hour away from metropolis Fukuoka (福岡). While having a sma...
What? Hatonosu Canyon (鳩ノ巣渓谷) is a valley created by the Tama River (多摩川) in the surrounding landscape...
What? Matsumoto (松本) is a mountain city located in a plain in the very center of the Japanese Alps . W...
What? Marugame (丸亀) might as well be the city on Shikoku Island (四国) that is the easiest to reach from ...
What? The Yoshino River cut deeply in the landscape to create several gorges which can be best enjoyed...
What? Naruto (鳴門) is the most accessible city in Tokushima Prefecture (徳島県) from the mainland and in ...
What? Mount Takatori (高取山) is with 584 meters not that impressively high, but it would have been in th...
What? Kumano Kodo (熊野古道) is a network of pilgrimage routes and is recognized as Unesco World Heritage ...
What? Matsumoto is a mountain city located in a plain in the very center of the Japanese Alps . While ...
What? Nagoya (名古屋) is Japan’s 4th biggest city after Tokyo, Yokohama and Osaka . Not having the metrop...
What? Inuyama (犬山) is famous for its castle (犬山城), which is only 1 of 5 designated as national treasur...
What? While Japan as a land exists for far longer than any evidence can show us, Japan as an entity, a ...
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