"Kokura Gion Daiko" (Japanese Drum Festival) is an annual festival in summer held in July every year in Kitakyushu City Kokura Kita Ward. It is the tradition "Kokura Gion Daiko" traditionally transmitted from the Edo period to color the festival. On the festival day, the decorated drums walk through the city center from the castle town of Kokura. Kokura Gion Festival is a … [Read more...] about Kokura Gion Daiko (Japanese Drum Festival), Fukuoka
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Zuisenji Temple, Kanagawa
"Zuisenji" along the Kanazawa Route is a temple built by Muso Soseki (later Muso Kokushi) in 1327. Muso Soseki was active from the end of the Kamakura period to the period of the Northern and Southern Court earlier period, and also made a garden such as Tenryuji in Kyoto. The garden that Muso Soseki made was discovered and restored in 1970 and is designated as the scenic spot … [Read more...] about Zuisenji Temple, Kanagawa
Ageuma Shinji (Horse Jumping Festival), Mie
In Japan it is said that there are more than 200 shinto rituals about horses throughout the country. "Yabusame" and "Ageuma" where people and horses are performed together are a brave myths with a long history in Japan. Moreover, in "Tado-Taish Shrine" and "Inabe-Jinja Shrine" of Mie prefecture where these are performed at the same time, the local residents keep treating the … [Read more...] about Ageuma Shinji (Horse Jumping Festival), Mie
Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo
"Tokyo National Museum" in Taito-ku, Tokyo is Japan's oldest museum aimed at collecting, storing and exhibiting cultural properties of Japan and the Orient. There are more than 110,000 collections including more than 80 national treasures and over 600 important cultural assets in the "Tokyo National Museum" consisting of 5 exhibition halls and museums. Not all of these … [Read more...] about Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo
Nagoya City Science Museum, Aichi
The Nagoya City Science Museum is located within Shirakawa Park, a 5-minute walk from Fushimi Station. This science museum, which has the world's largest planetarium, is a facility where you can learn science while experiencing the theme of "Try looking and touching out". Besides the theme-based experiential type exhibition, the experiment show, the exhibition which exhibits … [Read more...] about Nagoya City Science Museum, Aichi
Atami Plum Garden, Shizuoka
Atami Plum Garden is a plum garden with more than 120 years of history in Atami. Mogi Sobei, a silk merchant representing Yokohama in 1886, landscaped and was dedicated to the Imperial family for a while. After becoming a state-owned property in 1952, the city is managing. It has been opened to the public as a place where "plum blossoming early in bloom" and "slowest autumn … [Read more...] about Atami Plum Garden, Shizuoka
Yokohama Chinatown, Kanagawa
As a tourist attraction representing Yokohama, "Yokohama Chinatown" whose name is listed first. Not only as a gourmet city where you can enjoy authentic Chinese cuisine, the whole city is full of places like amusement park. Yokohama Chinatown is located in a corner of Naka-ku Yamashita-cho where Yokohama's sightseeing spots concentrate. Yamashita Park and Motomachi shopping … [Read more...] about Yokohama Chinatown, Kanagawa
Gaikaku Housuiro(Underground Discharge Channel), Saitama
Huge underground holy shrine in Kasukabe city, Saitama prefecture "Gaikaku Housuiro" (Underground Discharge Channel). This Metropolitan Underground Discharge Channel is a disaster prevention facility that dispatches water to protect the metropolitan area from flood damage, not a tourist facility. Therefore, until now only some weekdays were open to the public in general. … [Read more...] about Gaikaku Housuiro(Underground Discharge Channel), Saitama
Neo Park Okinawa, Okinawa
"Neo Park Okinawa" in Nago city in the northern part of the main island of Okinawa. It is a natural botanical and animal park where you can interact with pasturing animals on a large site. Neo Park Okinawa opened in 1987 is a natural animal park that makes use of the subtropical climate and the wilderness of Yanbaru (northern part of Okinawa). The vast grounds of 22 hectares … [Read more...] about Neo Park Okinawa, Okinawa
Jidaimatsuri (Festival of the Ages), Kyoto
Jidaimatsuri (Festival of the Ages) is one of the "three largest festivals in Kyoto" lining up with Aoi Maturi Festival, Gion Matsuri Festival, was started in Heian Shrine in the middle of Meiji era. It is a masterpiece that the queue in each period's costumes walks through the city of Kyoto. You will be immersed in the feeling that you are reading the picture scroll of the … [Read more...] about Jidaimatsuri (Festival of the Ages), Kyoto