A beautiful spot to visit on a trip to Okinawa Prefectural is the Peace Memorial Museum There is an …

Heianjingu-Shrine is dedicated to both Kanmu and Takaaki emperor. The history is unexpectedly new; i…

The Five-Storied Pagoda of To-Ji Temple: you can see from the car window of the Shinkansen. There sh…

Yasaka-jinja Shrine is famous for the Japan’s three biggest festivals “Gion Festival”. The tower gat…

The Tofuku-ji temple(東福寺) is the head temple of the Tofuku-Ji sect of Rinzai mission and surrounded …

Fushimi Inari Taisha Shrine was chosen as a top of “a sightseeing spot of where is popular among for…

The Phoenix Hall of Byodo-in is in Uji, and it’s familiar with Japanese 10 yen coin. As a compilatio…

From the Tokyo Metro Ginza line Asakusa Station (exit 2)(浅草駅）, it is a 1-minute walk to the front of…

Sacred place of highest rank in Ryukyu history The Ryukyu Kingdom is said to have been born 18,000 y…

Okinawa has nine locations registered on the World Heritage list.   I am going to introduce you…

Katsuren castle (勝連城跡) ruins were selected by UNESCO as one of the “Kingdom of Ryukyu Gusuku S…

Japan’s unique “Wabi-Sabi” culture can best be experienced at the Ryoan-Temple. In…

Asakusa’s Senso-ji Temple(浅草寺) is the oldest temple in Tokyo. It was founded in 628. It is popular f…

Shimogamo Shrine (a world heritage site) from the Heian period is one of the oldest shrines in Kyoto…

Water that governs their lives! In the old days in Okinawa there was a festival of “Omizutori” in wh…

If you talk about going to Okinawa main island to the town of Naha you would most likely talk about …