11 Culture Aoba Festival in Photos Laura Welch Aoba Festival is Sendai's biggest and most lively festival, held over a weekend in May. There's traditional dancing, performa...
15 Culture Comiket 85 Convention in Tokyo George Popescu Comiket 85, manga and anime convention being held in Tokyo every year, where many people are dressed in different outfits and...
15 Culture Sanja Matsuri, Asakusa George Popescu During the festival the area around Asakusa's Sensoji Temple is filled with hundreds of people. There are drums and people pl...
6 Culture 634m of Tokyo Skytree Andre Moreira Ever been to the tallest Tower in the world? Before going to the top, take a moment and enjoy its hugeness. It's beautiful.
9 Culture Japan Coast Guard Museum Justin Velgus The Japan Coast Guard Museum in Yokohama is the pride of the Japan Coast Guard. The free admission warehouse is a trophy hous...
12 Culture Yamanaka-jo Castle Park, Mishima Peter Sidell Between Mishima and Hakone in Japan's Shizuoka prefecture, Yamanaka-jo is a beautiful hilltop park on the site of an old fort...
12 Culture Manyo Botanical Garden Tomoko Kamishima Manyo Botanical Garden is situated within the precincts of Kasuga Taisha Shrine and has 300 kinds of flower and plants mentio...
14 Culture Kyoto Toyokuni Shrine Takako Sakamoto Toyokuni Shrine, Higashiyama, Kyoto, is where Toyotomi Hideyoshi is enshrined. It had been closed and forbidden to enter for ...
15 Culture Kyoto Shugakuin Imperial Villa Tomoko Kamishima Kyoto Shugakuin Imperial Villa: Simple, peaceful, and rustic place for Emperor Go-mizunoo
Culture Bando POW Camp Site, Tokushima Takako Sakamoto Can you imagine any POW camp being a paradise? I couldn't, until I learned about this Bando POW Camp in WWI, from 1917 to 192...