Location List

Approximately 25-minute-drive from Hanamaki station on Japan Railway. They still offer mix bathing which is rare nowadays.

Hot spring with a long history.

Its 700 m-long approach is paved with natural stones. Japan's largest Gongen-styale Building.

Running between Kooge and Wakasa Stations, this local railway, opened in 1930, features a wooden station house with old-fashioned waiting room and benches, and the old steam locomotive and its faci...

Two wooden Kannon statues are enshrined in a cave.

The streetscape of Ohamamachi area

The waterfall is 75 meters high and 13 meters wide with clear water flowing down vertically. The approach to the Kiyomizu Kannon (Goddess of Mercy) at the bottom of the waterfall has a solemn atmos...

It is a natural scenery around Ashinomaki Onsen.

Once a flourishing town thanks to copper mining, this mountain village was famous as a major producer of vivid red “Bengara” color pigment made from oxidized iron. The uniqueness of Fukiya is that ...

【Hida,Landscape】 In winter, there is heavy snow. Also row of icicles under a roofs.

Mie prefecture is a production area of Ise tea. The tea produced at Watarai cho is called "Watarai tea".

Facing Chizu’s main thoroughfare, in the Edo period the Ishitani Residence was the largest building in the Tottori feudal domain’s largest post-station town, which later became Chizu. Laid out to e...

【Hida/Nature】【Hida/Others】 A road to Kawai ski area. It can be running side by side asn surrounded by trees.

【Hida/Nature】【Hida/Other】 This is a part of unpaved road in a mountain. Here is a narrow road.

【Hida/landscape】 It's a local shopping street, still remain atmosphere of Syowa era(1926-1989）.

educational facility for Landscape planning & horticulture

【Hida,Landscape】 This is a cityscape of Furukawa. A city in which streets are designed in a grid.

A small mountain located at the center of Fukui plain field. Has an art museum, museum and zoo.

Shinjo flourished during the Edo Period as a lodging town on the Izumo Kaido, an old road connecting the San-in and Sanyo regions. There are beautiful streams on both sides of the buildings. In 190...

The Katsuyama Historical Preservation District is a historic town with samurai residences from the Edo Period as well as the Katsuyama Local Historical Museum. Old sake breweries and samurai resi...

Climb up the winding road to Hattoji Temple to reach its peak where a beautiful rural landscape unfolds. Hattoji Furusato Village is located on a plateau at an altitude of 400 meters. This is an ar...