What? Okinoerabujima (沖永良部島) or Okinoerabu Island (shima/jima means island in Japanese) is a rathe...
What? Oishi Highland or Oishi Kogen (生石高原) is a plateau most famous for the Japanese pampas grass th...
What? Takamatsu (高松) is the capital and biggest city of Kagawa Prefecture (香川県), famous for the Rits...
What? The Shikoku Pilgrimage (四国遍路) crosses the whole island, passing 88 temples, just as it is told ...
What? The Shikoku Pilgrimage (四国遍路) crosses the whole island, passing 88 temples, just as it is told ...
What? The Shikoku Pilgrimage (四国遍路) crosses the whole island, passing 88 temples, just as it is told ...
What? The walk between Takao (高雄) and Hozukyo Station (保津峡駅) follows the Kiyotaki River (清滝川) all alon...
What? Mount Nijo (二上山) is a small mountain with two peaks, Odake (雄岳 – 517m) and Medake (雌岳 – 474m). ...
What? Himakajima Island (日間賀島) is one of three small islands in the Mikawa Bay (三河湾) near Nagoya (名古...
What? Nagoya (名古屋) is Japan’s 4th biggest city with almost 2.5 million inhabitants. The proximity of ...
What? Lake Tazawa (田沢湖) is a caldera lake and the deepest one Japan has to offer at 423 meters. Ther...
What? Hachimantai (八幡平) is both the name of a city as a mountain as a plateau . The plateau is home t...
What? The Michinoku Coastal Trail (みちのく潮風トレイル) is a long path covering most of Tohoku ’s eastern coast...
What? Mount Akita-Komagatake (秋田駒ケ岳) is an active volcano located in the Towada-Hachimantai National...
What? Mount Horai (蓬莱山) is 1174m high peak in the Hira Mountain Range (比良山地). It used to house ski sl...
What? Mount Maya (摩耶山) is a 699 meters high mountain dotted with various ruins. Historically the Tenj...
What? Kurayoshi ’s (倉吉) claim to fame are its white walled warehouses or shirakabe storehouses (白壁土蔵群)...
What? The Uradome Coastline (浦富海岸) is part of the protected Sanin Coast Geopark (山陰海岸ジオパーク) along the ...
What? Tottori (鳥取) is the capital of the prefecture with the same name. That prefecture lies along the...
What? Tottori (鳥取) is the capital of the prefecture with the same name. That prefecture lies along the...
What? Omihachiman (近江八幡) is a quiet anonymous little town along Lake Biwa (琵琶湖) in Shiga Prefecture (...
What? Kada (加太) is a quiet fishermen’s town near Wakayama (和歌山). Apparently it has a rich history as ...
What? Harima Alps (播磨アルプス) is a cirkel of stony hills around an irrigation plateau a little bit befor...
What? Horyuji (法隆寺) or more correctly Horyu Gakumonji (法隆学問寺) is the oldest wooden building in the wor...
What? Shizugatake (賤ケ岳) is a small peak at the northernmost point of Lake Biwa (琵琶湖). On the other side...
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