13 Culture Kure "Yamato" Maritime Museum Virginia Gonzalez Yamato, the biggest battleship ever built, was sunk by American aircraft during the suicide operation Ten-Go. Kure's Maritime...
Culture Okazaki-jinja and Konkaikomyo-ji Hoyee Tse Kyoto, filled with shrines and temples, is the city to learn about ancient architecture. Okazaki shrine and Konkaikomyo templ...
15 Culture Comiket 84 Day 1 Reika Clare Day 1 of the famed summer Comiket in Tokyo Big Sight. Cosplayers and the crowd.
8 Culture Shiribetsu River Park Chris Barnes The Shiribetsu River park is an ideal place to relax and exercise in Kutchan.
12 Culture Fukui's Beautiful Heisen-ji Temple Larry Knipfing Most striking are the tall majestic cedar trees, and the blanket of green moss covering the shrine's precincts. Come in the e...
Culture Kitakyushu Natural History Museum Eitetsu Terakado Kitakyushu Museum of History is one of western Japan's largest, focusing on the evolution of earth and life forms. Exhibition...
Culture The Tsuzawa Yotaka Andon Matsuri Meredith Lescoe A look into a little known, yet immensely entertaining, hikiyama festival in the Hokuriku region of Japan.
12 Culture Shuzen-ji Bamboo Path Tomoko Kamishima “Chikurin-no-komichi” is a pleasant path in the bamboo bush. Walking the path, you would are showered with cool and crisp gre...
Culture Toronagashi in Sasebo 2024 Mandy Bartok The souls of Sasebo's departed are guided back to their eternal rest by lanterns set afloat on the Sasebo River on the final ...
Culture Kasamori-ji or Kasamori Kannon Sandra Isaka Kasamori-ji, or Kasamori Kannon, a magestic temple made of wood pillars, perched on the top of a large rock in central Chiba ...