Rediscovering Japan

Travel

by tomizuta

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Click the prefecture you are traveling to in the above map and you will be taken to top of prefecture. If there is no link, articles are yet to be published for that prefecture.

Click the pictures below to go to article.
Hokkaido

Hakodate Part1 (Motomachi) (Historical port city)

Hakodate Part2 (Motomachi/Funamicho) (Historical port city, Sentou)

Hakodate Part3 (Goryoukaku/Mount Hakodate) (Historical port city, , Night scenery, Sake)

Sapporo/Otaru Part1 (Sapporo) (Hokkaido development, architecture, herring fishing) (New)

Sapporo/Otaru Part2 (Otaru) (Canal, architecture, herring fishing, Blue Cavern) (New)

Aomori (Jomon Sites Part 1) (Tsugaru) (Jomon, Doguu Clay Figurine)

Aomori (Jomon Sites Part 2) (Hachinohe) (Jomon, Praying Doguu)

Aomori (Jomon Sites Part 3) (Sotogahama/Aomori) (Jomon, Sannai)

Akita (Part1) (Kakunodate) (Samurai residence, Joukamachi, Little Kyoto)

Akita (Part2) (Kitaakita/Oga) (Matagi, Namahage, folklore, mining town)

Akita (Part3) (Nyuudouzaki/Akita/Nishiki/Kakunodate) (Japan Sea, Mining Museum, Dogtooth Violets, Weeping Cherries)

Iwate (Part1) (Sanriku, Sake)

Iwate (Part2) (Onsen, Sanriku, Folklore, Five Hundred Rakan)

Iwate (Part3) (Hiraizumi) (Paradise Garden, Pure Land, World Heritage, Tohoku Fujiwara Family, Ennin)

Miyagi

Matsushima (Zuigan-ji, Sagakei Gorge, Date Family, Ennin)

Niigata

Sado (Gold Mining, Noh, Toki)

Fukushima

Aizu Part 1 (Kitakata/Higashiyama Onsen) (Kurazukuri architecture, Nagatoko Shintou shrine, sake)














Aizu Part 2 (Aizuwakamatsu) (Kannon Bosatsu, Japanese garden, honjin, Christianity)














Aizu Part 3 (Oouchijuku/Minamiaizu) (Lodging village, kannondou, onsen)













Fukushima (Shiramizu Amidaa-do) (Paradise garden, Joudo Teien)














Tochigi

Nikko Part 1 (Nikko/Rinnouji/Toushouguu) (World Heritage, Architecture)

Nikko Part 2 (Nikko/Futarasanjinja/Taiyuuin) (World Heritage, Mausoleum)

Tochigi City (Tochigi Prefecture) (Buddhist temple, Ancient governmental ruins, Merchant storage buildings, sake, soba)

Ooarai/Mito/Kasama (Japanese garden, Castle, Inari Shrine)

Kitaibaraki/Hitachinaka/Mito (Fukuroda Falls, Nemophila, sake)

Tomioka (Gunma) & Ogawa (Saitama) (Onsen, Folklore, Cherry blossoms, Sake)

Kawagoe (Saitama) (Little Edo, Kurazukuri architecture, 500 Rakan)

Funabashi (Grand shrine, Shinto culture, high street)

Katori (Iris (ayame), River Tone, Suigo district)

Chiba (Ancient Koga lotus, Chiba Port Tower, Railway regiment, Katori Shell Mounds, Neolithic Jomon Site)

Chiba (Katsuura Hina Festival,Morning market)

Asakusa (Edo culture)

Ryougoku/Kameido (Shitamachi, Feudal Lord Edo residences, Sumo)

Rikugien & Ebigawa (Cherry blossoms, Japanese garden)

Meiji Shrine (Tokyo) (Shinjuku and Shibuya, Bio-diversity, Shintou)

Kamakura (Genji, Heisi, samurai, zen, Japanese garden)

Minobusan/Koufu City/Enzan (Nichiren sect, Takeda, Shousenkyou Valley, Japanese garden) (New)

Unno-juku (Nagano, Historic buildings, Major roads, Sake)

Suwa/Chino (Grand shrine, Shinto culture, festival, Sumo, lodging village)

Matsushiro/Obuse (Northern Nagano, Sanada country, Little Kyoto, Soba)

Chino/Haramura/Fujimi (Neolithic Jomon sites, Yatsugatake Mountain Range, Oga Lotus)

Ina City (Neolithic Jomon site, Mikoshiba, Sake)

Inuyama (Aichi) (Gengou, Monzenmachi, Joukamachi, National Treasure)

Kariya/Asuke (Kakitsubata, Lodging Village, Salt Road)

Gifu Prefecture Part 1 (Hida Furukawa) (Festival, Hida, Kanamori, White wall, Sake)

Gifu Prefecture Part 2 (Shirakawa-go) (World Heritage, Gassho-style building, Gunpowder, silkworm, Heiji)

Gifu Prefecture Part 3 (Takayama) (Festival, Hida, Kanamori, Hachimanguu, Hida carpenters, Sake)

Mie/Wakayama Part 1 (Ise ) (Mythology, Shintou, Sweets)

Mie/Wakayama Part 2 (Kumano ) (Mythology, Shintou, Pilgrimage)

Mie/Wakayama Part 3 (Kumano/Kouyasan ) (Shintou-Buddhism fusion, Shoujinryouri cuisine, Japanese garden)

Takahashi/Kurashiki (Folklore, Japanese garden, Mountain Castle, Tenryou)

Bizen/Tsuyama/Kibitsu (Shizutani School, National Treasure, Shrine architecture, Folklore)

Kure & Onomichi (Tradition, Historic buildings, Sake, Japanese garden)

Northern Hiroshima (Miyoshi/Shoubara) (Cherry blossoms, puppetry, architecture, salamander)

Mihara/Takehara/Higashihiroshima (Castle towns, zen, sake breweries)

Izumo (Shimane, Shinto shrine, Mythology, Soba noodle, Sake)

Eastern Yamaguchi (Iwakuni/Yanai) (Kintaikyou Bridge, Typhoon, Sake, School Museum)

Tokushima (Historic buildings, Rise of Samurai, Japanese garden, Sake)

Saga Part 1 (Ureshino Onsen/Takeo Onsen/Yoshinogari) (Architecture, Yayoi era)(New)

Saga Part 2 (Karatsu/Imari/Kashima) (Porcelain, Inari shrine(New)

Nagasaki Part1 (Ohno/Shitsu) (Hidden Christians)

Nagasaki Part 2 (Central Nagasaki City) (Chinese influences, A-bomb)

Nagasaki Part 3 (Central Nagasaki City continued) (Western style buildings, Dejima, champon and saraudon, sake)

Nagasaki Part 4 (Shimabara Peninsula) (Samurai residence, Civil War, Kanzarashi sweets, Water God)

Ooita Part 1 (Hita/Usa/Kunisaki ) (Shintou-Buddhism fusion, Stone culture)

Ooita Part 2 (Usuki/Hiji/Kitsuki/Taketa ) (Samurai residence, Little Kyoto, Christianity, Stone culture, Japanese cuisine)

Kagoshima Part 1 (Kirishima/Kagoshima) (Mythology, Japanese garden, Industrial revolution, Shimazu Family, shouchuu)

Kagoshima Part 2 (Kagoshima/Chiran) (Seinan Civil War, Mount Sakurajima, Chiran Peace Museum, Chiran samurai residence area and Japanese gardens)

Kagoshima Part 3 (Ibusuki/Minamisatsuma) (Satsuma-Fuji, Mythology, Bounotsu historical port)

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