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Toyama City Glass Museum

Toyama City Glass Museum

Easily found by its impressive and unique exterior architecture, the Toyama City Glass Museum in Toyama Prefecture houses ove...

Toyama
Hakushima Clinic [Closed]

Hakushima Clinic [Closed]

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For any stomach discomfort, Hakushima clinic offers high quality diagnosis, Japanese herbal medicine as well as acupuncture a...

Hiroshima
Kumano Hayatama Taisha

Kumano Hayatama Taisha

Kumano Hayatama Taisha is a Shinto shrine in Shingu, Wakayama. It is located at the mouth of the Kumano-gawa River, where the...

Wakayama
Hiroshima Castle

Hiroshima Castle

Hiroshima Castle, also known as Carp Castle, was originally built in the 1590s. It was destroyed by the atomic bomb along wit...

Hiroshima
Kotoku-in

Kotoku-in

Kotoku-in is the more common name for Taiizan Kotoku-in Shojosen-ji in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture. This Jodo-shu Buddhist ...

Kanagawa
Entsuin Temple

Entsuin Temple

The Entsuin Temple was built next to Matsushima's main temple, the Zuiganji Temple, in 1647 to house the mausoleum of Date Mi...

Miyagi
Nisshinkan

Nisshinkan

Nisshinkan (會津藩校日新館) was established in 1803 to be a leading school to educate the children of the Aizu clan's samurai...

Fukushima
Tokeiji Temple

Tokeiji Temple

Tokeiji, a Rinzai-sect temple of Zen Buddhism, is a branch temple of nearby Engakuji, which is a short 5-minute walk away. Th...

Kanagawa
Gokoku Shrine

Gokoku Shrine

Located on the grounds of Hiroshima Castle, Hiroshima Gokoku Jinja (広島護国神社) is a Japanese Shinto Shrine in central Hiro...

Hiroshima
Daigo-ji Temple

Daigo-ji Temple

Founded in 874, Daigo-ji Temple is one of Kyoto's most scenic religious sites. The hillside temple grounds make it a prime sp...

Kyoto